The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 18
So the man listened to her words, and the woman dwelt there, and brought the wood and kindled the fire, till one day her husband said to her, ‘It is now two years since you died.
Who acts: man, woman, husband, fire, you, wife · What happens: listen, dwell, bring, kindle, say, be · To what, where: wood, fire, one day, wife, two years · 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 (man, woman, husband, fire), 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 | _ | 4 listened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 listened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dwelt | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dwelt | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dwelt | nsubj |
| 12 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | conj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 dwelt | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 brought | cc |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wood | det |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 kindled | cc |
| 20 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 brought | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fire | det |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kindled | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 day | punct |
| 24 | till | till | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 day | nummod |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kindled | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 husband | nmod:poss |
| 28 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 day | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 years | punct |
| 33 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 years | punct |
| 34 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 years | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 years | cop |
| 36 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 years | advmod |
| 37 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 years | nummod |
| 38 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 kindled | parataxis |
| 39 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 41 died | mark |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 died | nsubj |
| 41 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 years | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the man | to wife's words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dwell | past | the woman | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | the wood | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kindle | past | the fire | day | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | wife's husband | one day not said here | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent day=Topic to she=Recipient | |||
| 6 | is a | present | fire | two years | now | tree rules | |||
| 7 | die | past | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 8 | word | wife | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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