The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 85

‘Why have you not boiled a fish?’ he cried, and stabber in the neck so that she fell dead.

Who acts: Macaroni, wife · What happens: not boil, cry, fall · To what, where: you, stabber

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 (Macaroni, wife), 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 boiled	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 boiled	advmod
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 boiled	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 boiled	nsubj:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 boiled	advmod
6	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cried	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boiled	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 boiled	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 boiled	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stabber	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stabber	cc
15	stabber	stabber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 neck	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 neck	det
18	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stabber	nmod
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 fell	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	advcl
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fell	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not boil	present · perfect · passive		you		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary fish=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	Macaroni	stabber in the neck		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	wife		dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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