The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 114

It is your fault that we have murdered all our wives; and, though we played as you told us, none of them ever came back to life.’

Who acts: guitar, we, you, none · What happens: be, murder, play, tell, come back · To what, where: fault, wives, us, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guitar, we, you, none), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fault	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fault	cop
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fault	nmod:poss
4	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 murdered	mark
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 murdered	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 murdered	aux
8	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 fault	acl:relcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 wives	det:predet
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wives	nmod:poss
11	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 murdered	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 played	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 played	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 played	punct
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 played	mark
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 played	nsubj
17	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fault	conj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 told	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 played	advcl
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
23	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	27 came	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 none	nmod
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 came	advmod
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 told	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 life	case
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fault	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 fault	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	guitar	your fault				tree rules
2	murder	present · perfect	we	our wives				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
3	play	past	we					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	you		us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
5	come back	past	none			life	ever	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location

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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