The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 99

But her husband did not understand why she wept, and he was tired and bruised from his climb, and a little cross too.

Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: not understand, weep, be, bruise · To what, where: climb · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (husband, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 understand	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 husband	nmod:poss
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understand	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 understand	advmod
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 wept	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wept	nsubj
9	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tired	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tired	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tired	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tired	cop
14	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 understand	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bruised	cc
16	bruised	bruise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 tired	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 climb	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 climb	nmod:poss
19	climb	climb	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bruised	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cross	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cross	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cross	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cross	amod
24	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tired	conj
25	too	too	ADV	_	24 cross	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not understand	past · do-support	wife's husband			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	weep	past	wife			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	husband		tired property	tree rules
4	bruise	participle	husband not said here	rock's climb		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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