The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 64

But the old man, who was much troubled, declared she was a bad, hard-hearted woman, to have behaved so to a poor harmless bird; then he left the house, and went into the forest to seek for his pet.

Who acts: old man, wife, man · What happens: be, declare, behave, leave, go, seek · To what, where: bad hearted woman, house, forest · 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 (old man, wife, man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 declared	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 declared	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 troubled	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 troubled	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 troubled	cop
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 troubled	advmod
9	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
11	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 woman	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 woman	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 woman	det
15	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bad	punct
17	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hearted	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 hard	punct
19	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 declared	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 behaved	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	24 behaved	mark
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 behaved	aux
24	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 declared	conj
25	so	so	ADV	_	30 bird	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	30 bird	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bird	det
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bird	amod
29	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bird	amod
30	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 behaved	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 left	punct
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 left	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 left	nsubj
34	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 declared	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 house	det
36	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 left	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 went	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 went	cc
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 left	conj
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 forest	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 forest	det
42	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 went	obl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 seek	mark
44	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 went	advcl
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 pet	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 pet	nmod:poss
47	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 seek	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old man				troubled property	tree rules
2	declare speech: other	past	the old man					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	wife	a bad hearted woman				tree rules
4	behave	to-infinitive · perfect	the old man not said here				to a poor harmless bird	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
5	leave	past	man	the house		then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
6	go	past	man not said here		the forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
7	seek	to-infinitive	man not said here				for man's pet	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for pet=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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