The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 37
When she was quite out of sight her husband recovered his wits and went back into his house, murmuring:
Who acts: wife, husband · What happens: be, recover, go back, murmur · To what, where: sight, wits, house
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 (wife, husband), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 quite | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 quite | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 quite | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 recovered | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quite | obl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 recovered | nsubj |
| 10 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wits | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 recovered | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 recovered | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 murmuring | punct |
| 20 | murmuring | murmur | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 went | advcl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wife | sight | quite property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | recover | past | wife's husband | husband's wits | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | wife's husband not said here | husband's house | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | murmur speech: other | gerund | wife's husband not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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