The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 47
On the day after this the carpenter had been out at work, and came home quite merry; but as soon as he entered the house his wife clapped her hands together and cried, ‘My dear, what makes you look like that?
Who acts: carpenter, work, man, wife, you · What happens: be, come, enter, clap, cry, make · To what, where: work, house, hands, you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carpenter, work, man, wife), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | obl |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 carpenter | det |
| 7 | carpenter | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 work | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 work | cop |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 been | compound:prt |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 work | case |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 work | acl:relcl |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 merry | advmod |
| 18 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 came | xcomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 clapped | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 clapped | cc |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 soon | advmod |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 clapped | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 entered | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 entered | nsubj |
| 25 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 soon | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entered | obj |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 wife | nmod:poss |
| 29 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 clapped | nsubj |
| 30 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 work | parataxis |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hands | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 clapped | obj |
| 33 | together | together | ADV | _ | 30 clapped | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 cried | cc |
| 35 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 clapped | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dear | punct |
| 37 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 dear | punct |
| 38 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 dear | nmod:poss |
| 39 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 cried | parataxis |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 makes | punct |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 42 makes | nsubj |
| 42 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 dear | acl:relcl |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 makes | obj |
| 44 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 makes | xcomp |
| 45 | like | like | ADP | _ | 46 that | case |
| 46 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 look | obl |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the carpenter | work | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | work not said here | home, merry property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | man | the house | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | ||||
| 4 | clap | past | man's wife | wool's hands | soon, together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | |||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | man's wife not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | make | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | look | infinitive | you not said here | like that | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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