The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 79

But as he drew near the house his heart sank a little, for he knew what a fury his wife would be in, and how she would abuse him for his absence.

Who acts: man, heart, wife · What happens: draw, sink, know, be, abuse, absent · To what, where: house, little, man

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 (man, heart, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 sank	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 drew	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drew	nsubj
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sank	advcl
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	obl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heart	nmod:poss
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sank	nsubj
10	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 little	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sank	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 knew	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sank	parataxis
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 knew	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fury	det
19	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 what	nsubj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 in	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 in	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 in	cop
24	in	in	ADV	_	17 what	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 abuse	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 abuse	cc
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 abuse	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 abuse	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 abuse	aux
30	abuse	abuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 knew	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 abuse	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 absence	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 absence	nmod:poss
34	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 abuse	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	man		the house		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sink	past	man's heart	a little			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent little=Patient
3	know	past	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	is	would	man's wife			in property	tree rules
5	abuse	would	wife	man		for man's absence	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for absence=Attribute
6	absent		man				nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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