The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 153
The woman was very angry, and broke out upon her husband; but he took it all very quietly, and only said, ‘Hang the money!
Who acts: woman, husband · What happens: be, break out, take, say, hang · To what, where: thief, money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 broke | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 broke | cc |
| 8 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | ccomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 broke | compound:prt |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 husband | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 quietly | advmod |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 quietly | advmod |
| 20 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 16 took | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 said | advmod |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 took | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Hang | punct |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 Hang | punct |
| 27 | Hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 money | det |
| 29 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Hang | obj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the woman | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break out | past | the woman not said here | upon woman's husband | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon husband=Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | husband | thief | quietly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | hang | infinitive | the money | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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