The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 102

All that day the man lay in bed, and whenever his wife entered the room and asked him, with a shake of the head, how he felt, he always replied that he was getting worse.

Who acts: man, wife · What happens: lie, enter, ask, feel, reply, get · To what, where: bed, room, man

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det:predet
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 bed	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 entered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 entered	cc
11	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 entered	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 entered	nsubj
14	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 entered	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 asked	cc
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 entered	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asked	iobj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shake	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 shake	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 shake	det
23	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asked	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 head	det
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shake	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 felt	punct
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 felt	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 felt	nsubj
30	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 shake	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 replied	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 replied	nsubj
33	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 replied	advmod
34	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 felt	advcl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 getting	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 getting	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 getting	aux
38	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 replied	advcl
39	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 getting	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the man			bed	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
2	enter	past	man's wife	the room				whenever property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
3	ask speech: ask	past	man's wife not said here		man				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	feel	past	man						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	reply speech: assert	past	man					always property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get	past · progressive	man					bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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