The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 24

The hunter’s wife, who had stood on the bank full of joy and hope, sank into despair when she saw her husband snatched away again before her eyes.

Who acts: wife, husband · What happens: stand, sink, see, snatch away · To what, where: bank, despair · 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 (wife, 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 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	18 sank	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stood	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	aux
8	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 wife	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bank	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bank	det
11	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bank	amod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 joy	case
14	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 full	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hope	cc
16	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 joy	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
18	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 despair	case
20	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sank	obl
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 saw	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sank	advcl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 husband	nmod:poss
25	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 snatched	nsubj
26	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saw	ccomp
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 snatched	advmod
28	again	again	ADV	_	26 snatched	advmod
29	before	before	ADP	_	31 eyes	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eyes	nmod:poss
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 snatched	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 sank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · perfect	the hunter's wife	the bank			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
2	sink	past	the hunter's wife	despair			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	see	past	wife				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	snatch away	past	wife's husband		before wife's eyes; again	away property	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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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