The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 24

Then the heart of the man was greatly stirred, and he stretched out his arms to his wife, but she waved her hands and said, ‘We have seen no one yet; it is too soon.’

Who acts: journey, wife, We, heart · What happens: stir, stretch out, wave, say, see, be · To what, where: heart, arms, hands, one · 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 (journey, wife, We, heart), 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	9 stirred	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heart	det
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stirred	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heart	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stirred	aux:pass
8	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	9 stirred	advmod
9	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stretched	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stretched	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stretched	nsubj
13	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stirred	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 stretched	compound:prt
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 arms	nmod:poss
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stretched	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 wife	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stretched	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waved	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 waved	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 waved	nsubj
23	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stretched	conj
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hands	nmod:poss
25	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 waved	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 waved	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seen	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 seen	punct
30	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 seen	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 seen	aux
32	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 said	ccomp
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 one	det
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seen	obj
35	yet	yet	ADV	_	32 seen	advmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 soon	punct
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 soon	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 soon	cop
39	too	too	ADV	_	40 soon	advmod
40	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 stirred	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stirred	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 stirred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stir	past · passive		the heart of the man	then	greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	stretch out	past	journey	journey's arms		to journey's wife result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent arm=Patient to wife=Result
3	wave	past	wife	wife's hands			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	wife not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see	present · perfect	We	no one	yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
6	is	present	heart			soon property	tree rules

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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