The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 6

He seated it in front of the fire, and tried to think he had his wife back again.

Who acts: husband · What happens: seat, try, think, have · To what, where: life, front, wife · 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 (husband), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seated	nsubj
2	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seated	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seated	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 front	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tried	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tried	cc
11	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seated	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 think	mark
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	xcomp
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 think	ccomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	back	back	ADV	_	19 again	advmod
19	again	again	ADV	_	15 had	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	seat	past	husband	life	front of the fire		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in front=Location
2	try	past	husband not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	husband not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	past	husband	husband's wife		again	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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