The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 96

I stabbed my wife, and then began to play, and now she is as well as ever.’

Who acts: I, wife · What happens: stab, begin, play, be · To what, where: 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 (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 stabbed	nsubj
2	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stabbed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 began	advmod
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stabbed	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 play	mark
10	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 is	cc
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 is	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 is	nsubj
15	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stabbed	parataxis
16	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	19 ever	cc
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 as	fixed
18	as	as	ADP	_	16 as	fixed
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 is	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stabbed	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 stabbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	stab	past	I	my wife		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	begin	past	I not said here		then	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	play	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be	present	wife		now	vn exist-47.1 «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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