The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 40

She used to think about it as she sat all alone during the long days, for her husband was almost always out.

Who acts: bride, husband · What happens: use, think, sit, be

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 (bride, husband), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 think	mark
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 think	obl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 sat	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	advcl
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 alone	advmod
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 sat	advmod
12	during	during	ADP	_	15 days	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 days	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 days	amod
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sat	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 out	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 out	mark
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 husband	nmod:poss
19	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 out	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 out	cop
21	almost	almost	ADV	_	22 always	advmod
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 out	advmod
23	out	out	ADV	_	9 sat	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	bride			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	bride not said here		about church	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
3	sit	past	bride	day	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	bride's husband		always, out property	tree rules

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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