The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 21

Then she told her story--how she was going through the world seeking after her husband.

Who acts: mistress · What happens: tell, go, seek · To what, where: story, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 story	nmod:poss
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 going	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 going	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
14	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 going	xcomp
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 husband	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 husband	nmod:poss
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seeking	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	mistress	mistress's story		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go	past · progressive	mistress		the world		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seek	gerund	mistress not said here			after mistress's husband	vn hunt-35.1 «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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