The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 30

But all that night the man seemed getting weaker and weaker, and at last, quite early, the wife crept out, and stealing to the hut, killed the bird, and brought him home to her husband.

Who acts: man, wife, stealing · What happens: seem, get, creep out, steal, kill, bring · To what, where: last, bird, man, husband

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. 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, stealing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 seemed	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 night	det:predet
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seemed	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seemed	nsubj
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 seemed	xcomp
9	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 getting	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 weaker	cc
11	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 weaker	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 crept	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 crept	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 crept	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 last	punct
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 early	advmod
18	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 last	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 last	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wife	det
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 crept	nsubj
22	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seemed	parataxis
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 crept	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 killed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 killed	cc
26	stealing	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 killed	csubj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 hut	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hut	det
29	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stealing	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stealing	punct
31	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 crept	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bird	det
33	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 killed	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 brought	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 brought	cc
36	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seemed	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 brought	obj
38	home	home	ADV	_	36 brought	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 husband	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 husband	nmod:poss
41	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 brought	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the man				night		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	get	gerund	the man not said here					weak property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	creep out	past	the wife			last			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory
4	steal	gerund						to the hut	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	kill	past	stealing	the bird					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
6	bring	past	the man not said here	man	wife's husband			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to husband=Destination

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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