The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 10

The poor wife told her all that had happened and how she had been told in a dream of the witch’s power to help her.

Who acts: poor wife, that · What happens: tell, happen, help, dream · To what, where: witch, wife, dream, power · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor wife, that), 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	3 wife	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 happened	det:predet
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 happened	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happened	aux
9	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 told	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 told	aux:pass
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 happened	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 dream	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dream	det
18	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 power	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 witch	det
21	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 power	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 witch	case
23	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dream	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 help	mark
25	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	advcl
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 help	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the poor wife		witch		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect	that				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		wife		a dream of the witch's power	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	help	to-infinitive			wife		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
5	dream			the witch's power			nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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