The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 4
His wife, on the other hand, was always tender and pitiful to the poor and miserable.
Who acts: wife · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tender | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hand | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hand | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hand | amod |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wife | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tender | cop |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 tender | advmod |
| 11 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pitiful | cc |
| 13 | pitiful | pitiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tender | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 poor | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 poor | det |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tender | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 miserable | cc |
| 18 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 poor | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tender | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Burchard's wife and the other hand | to the poor; always, tender property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Burchard's wife and the other hand not said here | 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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