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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 23

When the old man had gone out about his business his bride passed her time in embroidering beautiful flowers on the bed quilt to make his heart happy.

Who acts: old man, bride · What happens: go out, pass, embroider, make · To what, where: beautiful flowers, bed quilt, heart

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, bride), 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

markdetamodnsubjauxadvclcompound:prtcasenmod:possoblnmod:possnsubjnmod:possobjmarkadvclamodobjcasedetcompoundoblmarkadvclnmod:possobjxcomppunctrootWhenSCONJtheDEToldADJmanNOUNhadAUXgoneVERBoutADPaboutADPhisPRONbusinessNOUNhisPRONbrideNOUNpassedVERBherPRONtimeNOUNinSCONJembroideringVERBbeautifulADJflowersNOUNonADPtheDETbedNOUNquiltNOUNtoPARTmakeVERBhisPRONheartNOUNhappyADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenSCONJ_6 gonemark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 mandet
3oldoldADJDegree=Pos4 manamod
4manmanNOUNNumber=Sing6 gonensubj
5hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 goneaux
6gonegoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part13 passedadvcl
7outoutADP_6 gonecompound:prt
8aboutaboutADP_10 businesscase
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 businessnmod:poss
10businessbusinessNOUNNumber=Sing6 goneobl
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 bridenmod:poss
12bridebrideNOUNNumber=Sing13 passednsubj
13passedpassVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
14herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 timenmod:poss
15timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing13 passedobj
16ininSCONJ_17 embroideringmark
17embroideringembroiderVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part13 passedadvcl
18beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos19 flowersamod
19flowersflowerNOUNNumber=Plur17 embroideringobj
20ononADP_23 quiltcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 quiltdet
22bedbedNOUNNumber=Sing23 quiltcompound
23quiltquiltNOUNNumber=Sing17 embroideringobl
24totoPART_25 makemark
25makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf17 embroideringadvcl
26hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 heartnmod:poss
27heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing25 makeobj
28happyhappyADJDegree=Pos25 makexcomp
29..PUNCT_13 passedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1go outpast · perfectthe old manabout man's businessvn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2passpastman's bridetimevn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3embroidergerundman's bride not said herebeautiful flowersthe bed quiltvn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme on quilt=Destination
4maketo-infinitiveman's bride not said hereman's hearthappy propertyvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heart=Product

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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