The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 35

He got what he wanted, paid for it, and nodded a good evening to the grocer and his wife (she was a woman who could do more than nod; she could talk).

Who acts: student, wife, woman · What happens: get, want, pay, nod, be, do · To what, where: grocer, woman, more

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student, wife, woman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 got	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 paid	punct
7	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wanted	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 paid	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nodded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nodded	cc
12	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 evening	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 evening	amod
15	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nodded	obl:unmarked
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 grocer	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 grocer	det
18	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nodded	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wife	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grocer	conj
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 woman	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 woman	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 woman	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 woman	det
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nodded	obl
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 do	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 do	aux
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 woman	acl:relcl
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 do	obj
31	than	than	ADP	_	32 nod	case
32	nod	nod	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 more	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 talk	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 talk	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 talk	aux
36	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 got	parataxis
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	36 talk	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	student					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	want	past	student					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	pay not said to happen	participle	student not said here				for cheese	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
4	nod	past	student not said here		the grocer and student's wife	evening		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to grocer=Recipient
5	is a	past	wife	a woman				tree rules
6	do	could	a woman	more				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
7	talk	could	wife					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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