The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 16

Then she spoke to him and said, ‘The Great Spirit felt sorry for you, because you would not be comforted, so he let me come back to you, but you must not stretch out your hand to touch me till we have seen the rest of our people.

Who acts: wife, Great Spirit, husband, me, you, we · What happens: speak, say, feel, not comfort, let, come back · To what, where: husband, you, me, hand, rest · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, Great Spirit, husband, me), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 spoke	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 felt	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 felt	punct
10	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Spirit	det
11	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Spirit	flat
12	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 felt	nsubj
13	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
14	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 felt	xcomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 felt	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 comforted	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 comforted	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 comforted	nsubj:pass
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 comforted	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 comforted	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 comforted	aux:pass
23	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 felt	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 let	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 let	nsubj
27	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 come	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 stretch	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 stretch	cc
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 stretch	nsubj
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 stretch	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 stretch	advmod
38	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	advcl
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 stretch	compound:prt
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 hand	nmod:poss
41	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stretch	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 touch	mark
43	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 stretch	advcl
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 touch	obj
45	till	till	SCONJ	_	48 seen	mark
46	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 seen	nsubj
47	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 seen	aux
48	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 touch	advcl
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 rest	det
50	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 seen	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 people	case
52	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 people	nmod:poss
53	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 rest	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	wife		husband	then		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	wife not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	feel	past	the Great Spirit				for you; sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	not comfort	would · passive		you				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	let	past	husband	me				tree rules
6	come back	infinitive	me not said here		you			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
7	not stretch out	must	you	your hand				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
8	touch	to-infinitive	you not said here	me				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme
9	see	present · perfect	we	the rest of our people				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rest=Stimulus

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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