The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 92

‘Why, the farmer’s wife has sold her horse’s tail!’ and turned in her saddle.

What happens: sell, turn · To what, where: wife, saddle

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 sold	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 sold	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sold	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farmer	det
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wife	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 farmer	case
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sold	nsubj:pass
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sold	aux
9	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 horse	nmod:poss
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tail	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 horse	case
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sold	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 sold	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 sold	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turned	cc
17	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sold	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 saddle	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 saddle	nmod:poss
20	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present · perfect · passive		the farmer's wife					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient tail=Theme
2	turn	past				wife's saddle			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in saddle=Trajectory

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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