The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 47

When the man got there and found that his ox was gone, he began to weep and wail, for he was afraid that when his old woman got to know she would be the death of him.

Who acts: man, ox, old woman, woman · What happens: get, find, be, begin, weep, wail · To what, where: death · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, ox, old woman, woman), 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 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 began	advcl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 got	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 found	cc
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 gone	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ox	nmod:poss
10	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	cop
12	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 found	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 weep	mark
17	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wail	cc
19	wail	wail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 weep	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 afraid	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 afraid	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 afraid	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 afraid	cop
24	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wail	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 got	mark
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 got	advmod
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 woman	nmod:poss
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	amod
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 got	nsubj
30	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 afraid	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 know	mark
32	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 got	xcomp
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 death	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 death	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 death	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 death	det
37	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 know	ccomp
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 death	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	the man		there		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	find	past	the man not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	man's ox			gone property	tree rules
4	begin	past	man				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	weep	to-infinitive	man not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wail	infinitive	man not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	man			afraid property	tree rules
8	get	past	man's old woman				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	know	to-infinitive	man's old woman not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	is a	would	woman	the death		of man	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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