The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 126
He went immediately to the Ogre’s house, where he saw his wife crying bitterly for the loss of the Ogre’s murdered daughters.
Who acts: ogre, wife, Ogre ’s · What happens: go, see, cry, murder · To what, where: house, wife, daughters
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 (ogre, wife, Ogre ’s), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ogre | det |
| 6 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Ogre | case |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 saw | xcomp |
| 16 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 15 crying | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 loss | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 loss | det |
| 19 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crying | obl |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 murdered | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ’s | det |
| 22 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ’s | compound |
| 23 | ’s | ' | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 murdered | nsubj |
| 24 | murdered | murder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 loss | acl |
| 25 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 murdered | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | ogre | the Ogre's house | immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | ogre | ogre's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | ogre's wife not said here | for the loss; bitterly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for loss=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | murder | past | the Ogre ’s | daughters | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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