The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 53

So he did, and when he was in his bed his wife went to him and said:

Who acts: man, wife · What happens: do, be, go, say · To what, where: bed, man · 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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 bed	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bed	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bed	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bed	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bed	nmod:poss
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	advcl
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 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	man			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	man		man's bed	tree rules
3	go	past	man's wife	man		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	man's wife not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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