The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 7

The next day he went out to hunt, and when he came home the first thing he did was to go up to the doll and brush off some of the ashes from the fire which had fallen on its face.

Who acts: husband, first thing, fire · What happens: go out, hunt, come, do, be, brush off · To what, where: first thing, some, fire, face

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, first thing, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hunt	mark
8	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thing	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	nsubj:outer
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 did	nsubj
19	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thing	acl:relcl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 go	cop
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 came	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 go	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 doll	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 doll	det
26	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 brush	cc
28	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 go	conj
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 brush	compound:prt
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 brush	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 ashes	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ashes	det
33	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 some	nmod
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 fire	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fire	det
36	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brush	obl
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 fallen	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 fallen	aux
39	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 fire	acl:relcl
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 face	case
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 face	nmod:poss
42	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fallen	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	husband			day	out property	tree rules
2	hunt	to-infinitive	husband not said here					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	husband				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	past	husband	the first thing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
5	is	past	the first thing				to the doll; go property	tree rules
6	brush off	infinitive	the first thing not said here	some	the fire			vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent some=Theme from fire=Initial_Location
7	fall	past · perfect	the fire		fire's face			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location

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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