The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 75

The poor wife was almost as dead as her husband, and had not strength enough to rise and welcome her brothers.

Who acts: poor wife, strength · What happens: be, have, rise, welcome · To what, where: strength, brothers

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor wife, strength), 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	3 wife	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 as	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 husband	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	parataxis
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 strength	advmod
15	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 rise	mark
18	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 welcome	cc
20	welcome	welcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 rise	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 brothers	nmod:poss
22	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 welcome	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor wife		as happiness's husband; dead property	tree rules
2	have	past		strength	enough property	tree rules
3	rise	to-infinitive	strength not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	welcome	infinitive	strength not said here	happiness's brothers		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=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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