The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 15
So he made haste, and opened the door quickly, and instead of the wooden doll, his wife sat in front of the fire.
Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: make, open, sit · To what, where: haste, door, front
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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 opened | cc |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | obj |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 7 opened | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 doll | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 doll | cc |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 17 doll | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instead | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 doll | det |
| 16 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 doll | amod |
| 17 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sat | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sat | nsubj |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 front | case |
| 23 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sat | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 fire | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fire | det |
| 26 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 front | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | husband | haste | instead the wooden doll | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product | |||
| 2 | open | past | husband not said here | the door | quickly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 3 | sit | past | husband's wife | front of the fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
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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