The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 109

The wife was very much surprised at this goodness of her husband, not dreaming after what manner she should dress them; but, thinking that he had ordered her to go and put on their clothes, she went up, and was strangely astonished when she perceived her seven daughters killed, and weltering in their blood.

Who acts: wife, manner, seven daughters · What happens: be, not dream, dress, think, order, go · To what, where: goodness, rascals, wife, clothes, blood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, manner, seven daughters), 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	6 surprised	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 surprised	advmod
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 goodness	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 goodness	det
9	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surprised	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 husband	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 husband	nmod:poss
12	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goodness	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dreaming	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 dreaming	advmod
15	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 surprised	advcl
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 what	case
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 dreaming	obl
18	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dress	nsubj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dress	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 dress	aux
21	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 what	acl:relcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dress	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 went	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 went	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thinking	punct
26	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 went	advcl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 ordered	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ordered	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ordered	aux
30	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 thinking	ccomp
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ordered	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 go	mark
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ordered	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 put	cc
35	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 go	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 clothes	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 clothes	nmod:poss
38	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	35 put	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thinking	punct
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 went	nsubj
41	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	conj
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 went	compound:prt
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 astonished	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 astonished	cc
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 astonished	cop
46	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	47 astonished	advmod
47	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 went	parataxis
48	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	50 perceived	advmod
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 perceived	nsubj
50	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 astonished	advcl
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 daughters	nmod:poss
52	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 daughters	nummod
53	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 killed	nsubj
54	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 perceived	ccomp
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 weltering	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 weltering	cc
57	weltering	welter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 went	advcl
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 blood	case
59	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 blood	nmod:poss
60	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 weltering	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wife			this goodness of wife's husband	surprised property	tree rules
2	not dream	gerund	the wife not said here					vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	dress	should	manner	rascals = rascal				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	think speech: other	gerund	wife not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	order	past · perfect	manner		wife			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	manner not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	put	infinitive	manner not said here			rascals's clothes		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination
8	go up	past	wife					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
9	is	past					astonished, strangely property	tree rules
10	perceive	past	wife					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	kill	past	wife's seven daughters					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
12	welter	gerund	wife not said here			rascals's blood		tree rules

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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