The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 4

So the man said ‘Yes’ in a moment, and then he caught fish in plenty; but when he got home at night, and his wife showed him a baby which had just been born, and fell a-weeping and wailing when he told her of the promise which he had given, he was very unhappy.

Who acts: man, fish, wife · What happens: say, catch, get, show, bear, fall · To what, where: fish, plenty, baby, weeping, wife, promise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, fish, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Yes	punct
6	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	obj
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 Yes	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 moment	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 moment	det
10	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 caught	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 caught	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 caught	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 caught	nsubj
15	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 caught	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 plenty	case
18	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 caught	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 got	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 got	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 got	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 got	nsubj
23	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
24	home	home	ADV	_	23 got	advmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 night	case
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 got	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 showed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 showed	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wife	nmod:poss
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 showed	nsubj
31	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 showed	iobj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 baby	det
34	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 showed	obj
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 born	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 born	aux
37	just	just	ADV	_	39 born	advmod
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 born	aux:pass
39	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 baby	acl:relcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fell	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fell	cc
42	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 weeping	det
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 a	punct
45	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fell	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 wailing	cc
47	wailing	wail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 fell	conj
48	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	50 told	advmod
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 told	nsubj
50	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 wailing	advcl
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 told	iobj
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 promise	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 promise	det
54	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 told	obl
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 given	nsubj
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 given	nsubj:pass
57	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 given	aux
58	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 promise	acl:relcl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 unhappy	punct
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 unhappy	nsubj
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 unhappy	cop
62	very	very	ADV	_	63 unhappy	advmod
63	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 fell	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the man				moment		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
2	catch	past	man	fish		plenty	then		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
3	get	past	fish				night	home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	show	past	fish's wife	a baby	fish				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient baby=Topic
5	bear	past · perfect · passive		a baby					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	fall	past		a weeping					vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient weeping=Result
7	wail	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	tell speech: assert	past	fish		wife			of the promise	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
9	give	past · perfect · passive		the promise					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
10	is	past	fish					unhappy property	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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