The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 84
From that time forth the carpenter’s wife drank free of expense every Sunday, for the others had to admit that she had fooled her husband the best.
Who acts: wife, others · What happens: drink, have, admit, fool · To what, where: Death · 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 (wife, others), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drank | obl |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 carpenter | det |
| 6 | carpenter | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 carpenter | case |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drank | nsubj |
| 9 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drank | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 expense | case |
| 12 | expense | expense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 free | obl |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 Sunday | det |
| 14 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 expense | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 others | det |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 drank | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 admit | mark |
| 21 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 had | xcomp |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 fooled | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fooled | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 fooled | aux |
| 25 | fooled | fool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 admit | ccomp |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 husband | nmod:poss |
| 27 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fooled | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 best | det |
| 29 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 husband | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | the carpenter's wife | time | free property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have | past | the others | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | admit speech: other | to-infinitive | the others not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fool | past · perfect · passive | Death | 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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