The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 54

Her husband had gone to the town some miles away down the mountain, and would not be back for several hours, but before he left he did not forget to open the door of the cage.

Who acts: husband · What happens: go, not be, leave, not forget, open · To what, where: town, door

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 miles	det
9	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 away	obl:unmarked
10	away	away	ADV	_	7 town	advmod
11	down	down	ADP	_	13 mountain	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mountain	det
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 away	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 back	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 back	cc
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 back	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 back	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 back	cop
19	back	back	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 hours	case
21	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hours	amod
22	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 back	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 left	cc
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 left	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 left	nsubj
27	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	parataxis
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 forget	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 forget	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 forget	advmod
31	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 left	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 open	mark
33	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 forget	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 open	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 cage	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 cage	det
38	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 door	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	harm's husband		the town			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
2	not is	would				hour	back property	tree rules
3	leave	past	husband					tree rules
4	not forget	past · do-support	husband					tree rules
5	open	to-infinitive	husband not said here	the door of the cage				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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