The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 92
The fact remained that he had killed his wife and could not bring her back again.
Who acts: fact · What happens: remain, kill, not bring back · To what, where: fact, wife
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 (fact), 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 fact | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 killed | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 killed | aux |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 remained | ccomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 killed | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bring | cc |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bring | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 bring | advmod |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 remained | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | obj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 bring | advmod |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 bring | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the fact | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect · passive | fact | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer wife=Result | |||||
| 3 | not bring back | could | the fact not said here | wife | again | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
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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