The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 4
So when the sisters saw that she was dead they went to the hut, and nursed their husbands till they grew strong.
Who acts: sisters, sister, savages · What happens: see, be, go, nurse, grow · To what, where: hut, husbands
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, sister, savages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sisters | det |
| 4 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 dead | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dead | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dead | cop |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advcl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 hut | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hut | det |
| 14 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 nursed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 nursed | cc |
| 17 | nursed | nurse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 husbands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 nursed | obj |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 grew | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 nursed | advcl |
| 23 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 grew | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the sisters | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | sister | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | savages = savage | the hut | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | nurse | past | the sisters not said here | savages's husbands | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | savages = savage | strong property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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