The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 121
‘Yes,’ said she, ‘I am your dear wife!’ and in the same moment she was restored to life, and was as fresh and well and rosy as ever.
Who acts: roe, I · What happens: say, be, restore · To what, where: dear wife, roe, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roe, I), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 wife | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wife | cop |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wife | amod |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | parataxis |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 wife | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 wife | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 moment | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 moment | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 moment | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 moment | amod |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wife | conj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 restored | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 restored | aux:pass |
| 23 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 moment | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 life | case |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 restored | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fresh | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fresh | cc |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 fresh | cop |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 fresh | case |
| 30 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 well | cc |
| 32 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 fresh | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 rosy | cc |
| 34 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fresh | conj |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 ever | case |
| 36 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 34 rosy | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | roe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | your dear wife and the same moment | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | restore | past · passive | roe | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to life=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | fresh property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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