The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 40

For he had a wife who was so cross and ill-tempered that the time between the beatings she gave him was very short.

Who acts: fellow, wife, time · What happens: have, be, temper, give · To what, where: wife, time, fellow

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, wife, time), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 had	case
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wife	det
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 cross	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cross	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 cross	advmod
9	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wife	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tempered	cc
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tempered	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 ill	punct
13	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cross	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 short	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 short	nsubj
17	between	between	ADP	_	19 beatings	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 beatings	det
19	beatings	beating	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 time	nmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	nsubj
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 time	acl:relcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	iobj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 short	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 short	advmod
25	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tempered	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	fellow	a wife			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	is	past	a wife			cross property	tree rules
3	temper	participle	a wife not said here				tree rules
4	give	past	wife	the time between the beatings not said here	fellow		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	is	past	the time between the beatings			short 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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