The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 36

“Your son has been the cause of a pretty misfortune,” she cried; “he threw my husband downstairs so that he broke his leg.

Who acts: son, wife, husband · What happens: be, cry, throw, break · To what, where: cause, husband, leg · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (son, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 cause	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cause	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cause	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 cause	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cause	det
7	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cried	parataxis
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 misfortune	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 misfortune	det
10	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 misfortune	amod
11	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cause	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cause	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 cause	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cried	nsubj
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 threw	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 threw	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 threw	nsubj
19	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cried	conj
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 husband	nmod:poss
21	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threw	obj
22	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	19 threw	advmod
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 broke	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 broke	nsubj
26	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 threw	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 leg	nmod:poss
28	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 broke	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present · perfect	Your son	the cause	of a pretty misfortune	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	wife			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	throw in a quote	past	husband	my husband	downstairs property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme
4	break in a quote	past	husband	husband's leg		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=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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