The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 78

‘Oh, that is impossible!’ replied the shoemaker, ‘for every time I have a quarrel with my wife I just strike her dead, and so give vent to my anger.

Who acts: that, impossible, I, my · What happens: be, reply, have, strike, give, anger · To what, where: shoemaker, quarrel, vent, anger

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 (that, impossible, I, my), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 impossible	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 impossible	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 impossible	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 impossible	cop
6	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 replied	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 impossible	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 impossible	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shoemaker	det
11	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 quarrel	det
20	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 wife	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 strike	obl
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 strike	nsubj
25	just	just	ADV	_	26 strike	advmod
26	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 have	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 strike	obj
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 strike	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 give	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 give	cc
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 give	advmod
32	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 have	conj
33	vent	vent	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 anger	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 anger	nmod:poss
36	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that				impossible property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	impossible	the shoemaker				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shoemaker=Topic
3	have	present	I	a quarrel		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Patient
4	strike	present	I	Shoemaker			with my wife; dead property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with wife=Instrument
5	give	infinitive	I not said here	vent	my anger			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vent=Theme to anger=Recipient
6	anger		my					nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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