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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

advmoddetnsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctccdetnsubjconjadvmodpunctccparataxisdetobjccconjdetobjpunctcasenummodobl:unmarkednmod:possnsubjacl:relclcaseoblpunctpunctnsubjcopadvmodnummodparataxismarknsubjadvclpunctrootSoADVtheDETmanNOUNlistenedVERBtoADPherPRONwordsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETwomanNOUNdweltVERBthereADV,PUNCTandCCONJbroughtVERBtheDETwoodNOUNandCCONJkindledVERBtheDETfireNOUN,PUNCTtillADPoneNUMdayNOUNherPRONhusbandNOUNsaidVERBtoADPherPRON,PUNCT‘PUNCTItPRONisAUXnowADVtwoNUMyearsNOUNsinceSCONJyouPRONdiedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 listenedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 mandet
3manmanNOUNNumber=Sing4 listenednsubj
4listenedlistenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5totoADP_7 wordscase
6herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 wordsnmod:poss
7wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur4 listenedobl
8,,PUNCT_12 dweltpunct
9andandCCONJ_12 dweltcc
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 womandet
11womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing12 dweltnsubj
12dweltdwellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 listenedconj
13therethereADVPronType=Dem12 dweltadvmod
14,,PUNCT_16 broughtpunct
15andandCCONJ_16 broughtcc
16broughtbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 listenedparataxis
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 wooddet
18woodwoodNOUNNumber=Sing16 broughtobj
19andandCCONJ_20 kindledcc
20kindledkindleVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 broughtconj
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 firedet
22firefireNOUNNumber=Sing20 kindledobj
23,,PUNCT_26 daypunct
24tilltillADP_26 daycase
25oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card26 daynummod
26daydayNOUNNumber=Sing20 kindledobl:unmarked
27herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 husbandnmod:poss
28husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing29 saidnsubj
29saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 dayacl:relcl
30totoADP_31 hercase
31hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 saidobl
32,,PUNCT_38 yearspunct
33‘'PUNCT_38 yearspunct
34ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 yearsnsubj
35isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin38 yearscop
36nownowADVPronType=Dem38 yearsadvmod
37twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card38 yearsnummod
38yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plur20 kindledparataxis
39sincesinceSCONJ_41 diedmark
40youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs41 diednsubj
41dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 yearsadvcl
42..PUNCT_4 listenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1listenpastthe manto wife's wordsvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
2dwellpastthe womantherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3bringpastthe woodvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
4kindlepastthe firedayvn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient
5say speech: assertpastwife's husbandone day not said herewifevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent day=Topic to she=Recipient
6is apresentfiretwo yearsnowtree rules
7diepastyouvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8wordwifenom 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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