The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 25
But he would not listen to her, and caught her to him, and behold! he was clasping the wooden doll.
Who acts: journey · What happens: not listen, catch, clasp · To what, where: wife, journey, wooden doll
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 listen | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 listen | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 listen | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 listen | advmod |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 listen | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 caught | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 caught | cc |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 listen | advcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 caught | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 caught | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 clasping | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 clasping | cc |
| 16 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 20 clasping | discourse |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 behold | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 clasping | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 clasping | aux |
| 20 | clasping | clasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 listen | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 doll | det |
| 22 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 doll | amod |
| 23 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clasping | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not listen | would | journey | wife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | journey not said here | wife | journey | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | clasp | past · progressive | journey | the wooden doll | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doll=Theme |
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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