The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 184
When her husband, the Pig, came back to his house, he was startled by what he saw.
Who acts: husband · What happens: come back, startle, see · To what, where: house, husband
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 came | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pig | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Pig | det |
| 6 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 husband | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 husband | punct |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 startled | advcl |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 startled | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 startled | aux:pass |
| 16 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 startled | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 startled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | idea's husband and the Pig | husband's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | startle | past · passive | husband | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | past | husband | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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