The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 13
The next time he went to hunt he took care not to go far, and came in quite early.
Who acts: husband · What happens: go, hunt, take, care, not go, come in
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dead Wife(20). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | 3 time | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hunt | mark |
| 7 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | xcomp |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hunt | ccomp |
| 10 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 took | ccomp |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 go | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 care | xcomp |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 early | advmod |
| 20 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 came | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | husband | time | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | husband not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | past | husband | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | care | infinitive | husband not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not go | to-infinitive | husband not said here | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come in | past | husband not said here | early 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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