The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 74

‘It is no affair of ours,’ and the conversation dropped once more, but as time went on, the woman spoke less and less, and seemed so wretched that her husband grew quite frightened about her.

Who acts: dinner, affair, woman, husband · What happens: be, drop, go on, speak, seem, grow · To what, where: affair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner, affair, woman, husband), 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	_	5 affair	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 affair	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 affair	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 affair	det
5	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dropped	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 ours	case
7	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 affair	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 affair	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 affair	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 conversation	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 conversation	det
12	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 affair	conj
13	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 dropped	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spoke	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 spoke	cc
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 went	mark
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl:unmarked
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 spoke	advcl
21	on	on	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 woman	det
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spoke	nsubj
25	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dropped	parataxis
26	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 spoke	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 less	cc
28	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 less	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seemed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seemed	cc
31	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dropped	parataxis
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 wretched	advmod
33	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 seemed	xcomp
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 grew	mark
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 husband	nmod:poss
36	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 grew	nsubj
37	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 wretched	advcl
38	quite	quite	ADV	_	39 frightened	advmod
39	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 grew	xcomp
40	about	about	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 frightened	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	dinner	no affair and the conversation		of ours	tree rules
2	drop	past	no affair and the conversation				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	go on	past	the woman not said here		time		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	speak speech: other	past	the woman			less property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	seem	past				wretched property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	grow	past	woman's husband			frightened property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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