The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 34
The wife ran and found her husband who was lying groaning in a corner, with his leg broken.
Who acts: wife, husband · What happens: run, find, lie, groan, break · To what, where: husband, leg
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lying | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lying | aux |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 husband | acl:relcl |
| 11 | groaning | groan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 lying | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 corner | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 corner | det |
| 14 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 groaning | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 leg | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 leg | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 leg | nmod:poss |
| 18 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 corner | appos |
| 19 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 leg | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the wife | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | the wife not said here | wife's husband | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lie | past · progressive | wife's husband | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | groan | gerund | wife's husband not said here | in a corner | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in corner=Theme | ||||
| 5 | break | participle | husband's leg not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: 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 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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