The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 3

Very often they spent the day in hunting together, but after a while the wife found that she had so many things to do that she was obliged to stay at home; so he went alone, though he found that when his wife was not with him he never had any luck.

Who acts: man, wife, he · What happens: spend, hunt, find, have, do, oblige · To what, where: many things, wife, home, luck · 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, wife, he), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 often	advmod
2	often	often	ADV	_	4 spent	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spent	nsubj
4	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spent	obj
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 hunting	mark
8	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spent	advcl
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 hunting	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 found	cc
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 while	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 while	det
14	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wife	det
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	nsubj
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spent	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	ccomp
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 many	advmod
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 things	amod
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 do	mark
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 things	acl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 obliged	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 obliged	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 obliged	aux:pass
29	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 do	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 stay	mark
31	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 obliged	xcomp
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 home	case
33	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stay	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 went	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	37 went	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 went	nsubj
37	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spent	parataxis
38	alone	alone	ADV	_	37 went	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 found	punct
40	though	though	SCONJ	_	42 found	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 found	nsubj
42	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 went	conj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 him	mark
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	50 him	advmod
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 wife	nmod:poss
46	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 him	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 him	cop
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 him	advmod
49	with	with	ADP	_	50 him	case
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 found	ccomp
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 had	nsubj
52	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	53 had	advmod
53	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 found	ccomp
54	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	55 luck	det
55	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 had	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	man			day	often property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hunt	gerund	man not said here				together property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	the wife			while		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	past	wife	many things				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
5	do	to-infinitive	wife not said here	many things not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	oblige	past · passive		wife				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
7	stay	to-infinitive			home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
8	go	past	he				alone property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	find	past	he					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	not is	past	his wife				with him = he	tree rules
11	not have	past	he	any luck				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient

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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