The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 9

The man thought the witch was really his wife, and he did not know that his wife was the sheep; so he went home with her, glad at heart because his sheep was found.

Who acts: man, witch, Ho, wife · What happens: think, be, not know, go, find · To what, where: wife, sheep · 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 (man, witch, Ho, wife), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 witch	det
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wife	cop
7	really	really	ADV	_	9 wife	advmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 know	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 know	advmod
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 sheep	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sheep	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sheep	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sheep	det
21	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 know	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
26	home	home	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 glad	punct
30	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 went	conj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 heart	case
32	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 glad	obl
33	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 found	mark
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 sheep	nmod:poss
35	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 found	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 found	aux:pass
37	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 went	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the man			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the witch	Ho's wife		tree rules
3	not know	past · do-support	Ho			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	Ho's wife	the sheep		tree rules
5	go	past	Ho		with witch; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary
6	find	past · passive		Ho's sheep		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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