The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 4

From the very day that the new wife came into the house there was no peace for the man’s children, and not a corner to be found where they could get any rest; so the boy thought that the best thing he could do was to go out into the world and try to earn his own bread.

Who acts: new wife, peace, boy, best thing · What happens: come, be, find, get, think, do · To what, where: house, rest, best thing, world, own bread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new wife, peace, boy, best thing), 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	From	from	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 day	advmod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wife	amod
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	advcl
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 peace	det
16	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
17	for	for	ADP	_	21 children	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 children	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 man	case
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 peace	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 corner	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 corner	cc
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 corner	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 corner	det
26	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 peace	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	29 found	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 found	aux:pass
29	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 corner	acl
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 get	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 get	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 get	aux
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 found	ccomp
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 rest	det
35	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 get	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 thought	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	40 thought	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 boy	det
39	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 thought	nsubj
40	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 go	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 thing	det
43	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	44 thing	amod
44	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 go	nsubj:outer
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 do	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 do	aux
47	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 thing	acl:relcl
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 go	cop
49	to	to	PART	_	50 go	mark
50	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 thought	ccomp
51	out	out	ADV	_	50 go	advmod
52	into	into	ADP	_	54 world	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 world	det
54	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 go	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 try	cc
56	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 go	conj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 earn	mark
58	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 try	xcomp
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 bread	nmod:poss
60	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 bread	amod
61	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 earn	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the new wife		the house	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
2	be	past	no peace for the man's children and a corner		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive · passive	no peace for the man's children and a corner not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: clause=Theme
4	get	could	peace	any rest				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rest=Stimulus
5	think speech: other	past	the boy					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	do	could	boy	the best thing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
7	is	past	the best thing		the world		go, out property	tree rules
8	try	infinitive	the best thing not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	earn not said to happen	to-infinitive	the best thing not said here	man's own bread				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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