The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 50

His wife sat straight in front of him, with her hands folded, and shook her head, and looked at him with an anxious air.

Who acts: wife, hands · What happens: sit, fold, shake, look · To what, where: front, head

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 (wife, hands), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 front	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 front	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 folded	punct
10	with	with	SCONJ	_	13 folded	mark
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 folded	nsubj
13	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shook	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shook	cc
16	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shook	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 looked	cc
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looked	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 air	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 air	det
26	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 air	amod
27	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looked	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	carpenter's wife		front of carpenter		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
2	fold	past	wool's hands				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	shake	past	carpenter's wife not said here	wool's head			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	look	past	carpenter's wife not said here			at carpenter; with a anxious air	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme

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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