The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 38

‘When thy wife came home,’ answered the farmer, ‘she saw the pack-saddle over her head, and she thought how dreadful it would be if it were to fall and kill her.’

Who acts: wife, saddle · What happens: come, answer, see, think, be, fall · To what, where: farmer, pack saddle, head, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, saddle), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
2	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	advcl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 farmer	det
11	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 saddle	det
17	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saddle	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 pack	punct
19	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 head	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saddle	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thought	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thought	nsubj
26	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	advcl
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 dreadful	advmod
28	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thought	ccomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dreadful	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 be	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 dreadful	cop
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 fall	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fall	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fall	aux
35	to	to	PART	_	36 fall	mark
36	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 be	advcl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 kill	cc
38	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 fall	conj
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 kill	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	thy wife				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past			the farmer			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent farmer=Eventuality
3	see	past	wife	the pack saddle		wife's head		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saddle=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past	wife					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	infinitive	saddle				dreadful property	tree rules
6	fall a condition, not said to happen	past	saddle					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	kill	infinitive	saddle not said here	wife				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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