The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 8
But he was very busy now, for he had to cook and mend, besides getting food, for there was no one to help him.
Who acts: husband, one · What happens: be, have, cook, mend, get, help · To what, where: food, husband
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, one), 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 busy | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 busy | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 busy | advmod |
| 5 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 busy | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 had | case |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 busy | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 cook | mark |
| 12 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mend | cc |
| 14 | mend | mend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cook | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 getting | punct |
| 16 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 17 getting | mark |
| 17 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 had | conj |
| 18 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 getting | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 was | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 was | mark |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 was | expl |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 getting | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 was | nsubj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 help | mark |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 one | acl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 help | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | husband | now | busy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | husband | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cook | to-infinitive | husband not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | mend | infinitive | husband not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | get | gerund | husband not said here | food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | be | past | no one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | help | to-infinitive | no one not said here | husband | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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