The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 6
The woman, who had hoped to find a good market, gave him what he wanted, but went away grumbling wrathfully.
Who acts: woman, tailor · What happens: hope, find, give, want, go away, grumble · To what, where: good market, tailor
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, tailor), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hoped | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 hoped | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hoped | aux |
| 6 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 woman | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hoped | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 market | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 market | amod |
| 11 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 woman | punct |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wanted | nsubj |
| 17 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gave | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | grumbling | grumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 went | xcomp |
| 23 | wrathfully | wrathfully | ADV | _ | 22 grumbling | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past · perfect | the woman | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the woman not said here | a good market | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent market=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the woman | tailor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | want | past | tailor | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | go away | past | the woman not said here | away property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | grumble speech: other | gerund | the woman not said here | wrathfully property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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