The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 82
The woman was still raging, and did not seem likely to stop, when her husband, who by this time had forgotten all about her, drew out the chest from under his cloak, and opened it.
Who acts: woman, husband · What happens: rage, not seem, stop, forget, draw out, open · To what, where: chest, cloak
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 (woman, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raging | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 raging | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 raging | advmod |
| 5 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seem | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seem | cc |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seem | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 seem | advmod |
| 10 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 raging | conj |
| 11 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seem | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 stop | mark |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 likely | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forgotten | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 forgotten | advmod |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 husband | nmod:poss |
| 17 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forgotten | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forgotten | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 forgotten | nsubj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forgotten | obl |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 forgotten | aux |
| 24 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 raging | conj |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 forgotten | advmod |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 forgotten | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 drew | punct |
| 29 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 raging | parataxis |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 drew | compound:prt |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 chest | det |
| 32 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drew | obj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 cloak | case |
| 34 | under | under | ADP | _ | 36 cloak | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 36 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drew | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 opened | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 opened | cc |
| 39 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 drew | conj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 opened | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 raging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | past · progressive | the woman | still | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not seem | past · do-support | the woman not said here | likely property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | the woman not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | forget | past · perfect | woman's husband | time | about woman; all property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | draw out | past | the chest | man's cloak | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent chest=Theme from cloak=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | open | past | cloak | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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