The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 98
His wife gave a shriek of joy when he came in, and then burst into tears, for she was tired and very frightened.
Who acts: wife, rock · What happens: give, come in, burst, be, shriek · To what, where: shriek, tears, joy
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, rock), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shriek | det |
| 5 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shriek | nmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 came | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 burst | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 burst | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 burst | advmod |
| 15 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 tears | case |
| 17 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 burst | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tired | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 tired | case |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tired | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tired | cop |
| 22 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 burst | advcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 frightened | cc |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 frightened | advmod |
| 25 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tired | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | rock's wife | a shriek of joy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come in | past | rock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | burst | past | rock's wife not said here | tears | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | wife | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | wife not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | shriek | joy | nom shriek «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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