The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 12
The hunter’s wife gave the witch a handsome present, thanked her heartily, and returned home.
Who acts: wife · What happens: give, thank, return · To what, where: handsome present, witch, heartily
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hunter | det |
| 2 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 hunter | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 present | det |
| 9 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 present | amod |
| 10 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thanked | punct |
| 12 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heartily | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heartily | heartily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thanked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 returned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 returned | cc |
| 17 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 returned | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the hunter's wife | a handsome present | the witch | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent witch=Recipient present=Theme | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | the hunter's wife not said here | wife's heartily | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heartily=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | past | the hunter's wife not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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