The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 63

His wife, who was still in a very bad temper, told him the whole story, and scolded him roundly for being so silly as to make such a fuss over a bird.

Who acts: wife · What happens: be, tell, scold, make · To what, where: bad temper, whole story, man, fuss · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	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	13 told	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 temper	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 temper	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 temper	cop
6	still	still	ADV	_	11 temper	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 temper	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 temper	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 bad	advmod
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 temper	amod
11	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wife	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wife	punct
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 story	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 story	amod
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 scolded	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 scolded	cc
20	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 scolded	obj
22	roundly	roundly	ADV	_	26 silly	advmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 silly	case
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 silly	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 silly	advmod
26	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 scolded	advcl
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 make	mark
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 silly	advcl
30	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	32 fuss	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 fuss	det
32	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 bird	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bird	det
35	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	man's wife and a bad temper			a bad temper	still		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	man's wife and a bad temper	the whole story	man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
3	scold	past	man's wife and a bad temper not said here	man					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	is	gerund	man's wife and a bad temper not said here					roundly, silly property	tree rules
5	make	to-infinitive	man's wife and a bad temper not said here	such fuss				over a bird	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product

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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