The Red Fairy Book, Jack Sells the Cow, sentence 3

There had been a hard winter, and after it the poor woman had suffered from fever and ague.

Who acts: poor woman · What happens: have, be, suffer · To what, where: hard winter, fever

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack Sells the Cow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor woman), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 had	expl
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 winter	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 winter	det
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 winter	amod
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 suffered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 suffered	cc
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 suffered	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 suffered	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 suffered	aux
15	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 fever	case
17	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 suffered	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ague	cc
19	ague	ague	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fever	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past			there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	participle		a hard winter			tree rules
3	suffer	past · perfect	the poor woman		fever and ague	after cottage	vn marvel-31.3 «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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