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The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 30

So her husband believed that it was all right, and that she had thought better of it, and had got over her mad impulse to obey the voice.

Who acts: husband, traveller, wife · What happens: believe, be, think, get, obey · To what, where: mad impulse, voice

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, traveller, 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

advmodnmod:possnsubjmarknsubjcopadvmodccomppunctccmarknsubjauxconjxcompcaseoblpunctccauxparataxiscasenmod:possamodoblmarkadvcldetobjpunctrootSoADVherPRONhusbandNOUNbelievedVERBthatSCONJitPRONwasAUXallADVrightADJ,PUNCTandCCONJthatSCONJshePRONhadAUXthoughtVERBbetterADJofADPitPRON,PUNCTandCCONJhadAUXgotVERBoverADPherPRONmadADJimpulseNOUNtoPARTobeyVERBtheDETvoiceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 believedadvmod
2herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 husbandnmod:poss
3husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing4 believednsubj
4believedbelieveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thatthatSCONJ_9 rightmark
6ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 rightnsubj
7wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 rightcop
8allallADV_9 rightadvmod
9rightrightADJDegree=Pos4 believedccomp
10,,PUNCT_15 thoughtpunct
11andandCCONJ_15 thoughtcc
12thatthatSCONJ_15 thoughtmark
13sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 thoughtnsubj
14hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 thoughtaux
15thoughtthinkVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part4 believedconj
16bettergoodADJDegree=Cmp15 thoughtxcomp
17ofofADP_18 itcase
18ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 betterobl
19,,PUNCT_22 gotpunct
20andandCCONJ_22 gotcc
21hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 gotaux
22gotgetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part4 believedparataxis
23overoverADP_26 impulsecase
24herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 impulsenmod:poss
25madmadADJDegree=Pos26 impulseamod
26impulseimpulseNOUNNumber=Sing22 gotobl
27totoPART_28 obeymark
28obeyobeyVERBVerbForm=Inf22 gotadvcl
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 voicedet
30voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing28 obeyobj
31..PUNCT_4 believedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1believepastwife's husbandvn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2ispasttravellerall, right propertytree rules
3think speech: otherpast · perfectwifegood propertyvn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4getpast · perfectwife's mad impulsevn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over impulse=Destination
5obeyto-infinitivethe voicevn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme

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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