The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 29
The sexton’s wife waited a long time for her husband, but he never appeared.
Who acts: wife, sexton · What happens: wait, not appear
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, sexton), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sexton | det |
| 2 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 sexton | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waited | nsubj |
| 5 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 husband | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waited | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 appeared | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 appeared | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 appeared | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 appeared | advmod |
| 16 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waited | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the sexton's wife | time | for wife's husband | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not appear | past | sexton | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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