The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 72
So the next morning he did not get up, and when six o’clock struck, his wife, who had been cleaning the house, went to see what was the matter.
Who acts: fool, six o’clock, wife · What happens: not get up, strike, clean, go, see, be · To what, where: wife, house, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fool, six o’clock, wife), 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 | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 get | advmod |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 get | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 struck | mark |
| 13 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 o’clock | nummod |
| 14 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struck | nsubj |
| 15 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 went | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wife | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struck | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cleaning | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 cleaning | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 cleaning | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 cleaning | aux |
| 23 | cleaning | clean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 wife | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cleaning | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 struck | punct |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 see | mark |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 went | xcomp |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 33 matter | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 matter | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 matter | det |
| 33 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | ccomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get up | past · do-support | fool | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | six o’clock | fool's wife | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wife=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | clean | past · perfect · progressive | fool's wife | the house | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | past | fool not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | fool not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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