The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 35
Afterwards, when they were alone, he raised the corner, and knew for the first time that he had wedded a wrinkled old woman.
Who acts: words, King · What happens: be, raise, know, wed, wrinkle · To what, where: corner, wrinkled old woman
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, King), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 9 raised | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Afterwards | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 were | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 were | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 raised | advcl |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 were | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 were | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 raised | nsubj |
| 9 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 corner | det |
| 11 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 raised | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 raised | parataxis |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knew | obl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 wedded | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wedded | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wedded | aux |
| 22 | wedded | wed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 knew | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 woman | det |
| 24 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 woman | amod |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 woman | amod |
| 26 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wedded | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | words = word | alone property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | raise | past | King | the corner | afterwards property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | past | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | wed | past · perfect | King | a wrinkled old woman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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