The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 3

For some years the poor man lived on alone with the children, caring for them as best he could; but everything in the house seemed to go wrong without a woman to look after it, and at last he made up his mind to marry again, feeling that a wife would bring peace and order to his household and take care of his motherless children.

Who acts: poor man, everything, man, wife · What happens: live, care, seem, go, look, make up · To what, where: best, mind, last, peace, household, care

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, everything, man, wife), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 years	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 years	det
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 alone	case
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 lived	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 children	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 caring	punct
14	caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 lived	advcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 best	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 best	nsubj
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 best	advmod
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 caring	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 could	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 best	parataxis
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 seemed	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 seemed	cc
23	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 seemed	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 house	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 everything	nmod
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seemed	xcomp
30	wrong	wrong	ADV	_	29 go	advmod
31	without	without	ADP	_	33 woman	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 woman	det
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 look	mark
35	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 go	advcl
36	after	after	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 look	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 made	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 made	cc
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 last	case
41	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 made	obl
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 made	nsubj
43	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	conj
44	up	up	ADP	_	43 made	compound:prt
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 mind	nmod:poss
46	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 made	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 marry	mark
48	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 made	advcl
49	again	again	ADV	_	48 marry	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 feeling	punct
51	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 marry	advcl
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 bring	mark
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 wife	det
54	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 bring	nsubj
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 bring	aux
56	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 feeling	advcl
57	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 bring	obj
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 order	cc
59	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 peace	conj
60	to	to	ADP	_	62 household	case
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 household	nmod:poss
62	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 bring	obl
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 take	cc
64	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 bring	conj
65	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 take	obj
66	of	of	ADP	_	69 children	case
67	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 children	nmod:poss
68	motherless	motherless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 children	amod
69	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 take	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the poor man			year	with the children	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with child=Location
2	care	gerund	the poor man not said here	best				tree rules
3	seem	past	everything					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	go	to-infinitive	everything not said here				without a woman; wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	look	to-infinitive	everything not said here			after house		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	make up	past	man	man's mind	last			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
7	marry	to-infinitive	man not said here			again		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
8	feel	gerund	man not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
9	bring	would	a wife	peace and order	man's household			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent peace=Theme to household=Destination
10	take	infinitive	a wife not said here	care			of man's motherless children	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of child=Initial_Location
11	mind		man					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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