The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 149
‘Ay, ay, your own wife is not at home,’ said the widow woman; ‘she is living like a reindeer in the wood; you have the witch’s daughter for a wife now, and the witch herself for a mother-in-law.’
Who acts: own wife, widow woman, woman, you · What happens: not be, say, live, have · To what, where: home, wood, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own wife, widow woman, woman, you), 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 | _ | 12 home | punct |
| 2 | Ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 4 ay | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 4 | ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 12 home | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ay | punct |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wife | amod |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 home | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 home | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 home | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 home | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 home | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 17 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 woman | compound |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 living | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 living | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 living | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 living | aux |
| 23 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | advcl |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 reindeer | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 reindeer | det |
| 26 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 living | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 wood | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wood | det |
| 29 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 living | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 have | punct |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 have | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 witch | det |
| 34 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 witch | case |
| 36 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | obj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 wife | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 wife | det |
| 39 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 daughter | nmod |
| 40 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 have | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 witch | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 witch | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 witch | det |
| 44 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | parataxis |
| 45 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 witch | nmod:unmarked |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 mother | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 mother | det |
| 48 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 witch | nmod |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 52 law | punct |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 law | case |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 in | punct |
| 52 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 mother | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 52 law | punct |
| 54 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 witch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | your own wife | home | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the widow woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | live | present · progressive | woman | the wood | like a reindeer | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | |||
| 4 | have | present | you | the witch's daughter | now | for a wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «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 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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