The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 52

The husband now began to grow anxious, and thought that perhaps he was not quite well.

Who acts: husband, carpenter · What happens: begin, grow, think, not be · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (husband, carpenter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 grow	mark
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grow	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 well	mark
12	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	17 well	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 well	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 well	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 well	advmod
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 well	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 thought	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the husband	now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	grow	to-infinitive	the husband not said here		anxious property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	the husband not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is	past	carpenter		perhaps, well 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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