The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 84

Then he went home to the Black Rogue’s wife, and told her that her husband was dead, and that he was ready to marry her if she liked.

Who acts: Bird, husband, wife · What happens: go, tell, be, marry, like · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bird, husband, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	10 wife	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Rogue	det
7	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Rogue	compound
8	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wife	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Rogue	case
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 dead	mark
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 husband	nmod:poss
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dead	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dead	cop
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 told	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ready	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ready	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 ready	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ready	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ready	cop
25	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 marry	mark
27	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ready	xcomp
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 marry	obj
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 liked	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 liked	nsubj
31	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 marry	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Bird			then	to the Black Rogue's wife; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	Bird not said here		wife			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	is	past	wife's husband				dead property	tree rules
4	is	past	Bird				ready property	tree rules
5	marry	to-infinitive	Bird not said here	wife				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
6	like a condition, not said to happen	past	wife					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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