The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 2

She was sad enough when her husband was at home with her, but when he was away she would see nobody, but sat and wept all day long.

Who acts: She, husband · What happens: be, see, sit, weep · To what, where: home, nobody

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (She, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 sad	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 home	advmod
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 husband	nmod:poss
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 home	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 home	cop
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sad	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 home	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 see	cc
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 away	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 away	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 away	cop
18	away	away	ADV	_	21 see	advcl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sad	parataxis
22	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 see	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 sat	cc
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 see	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wept	cc
27	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sat	conj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wept	obl:unmarked
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 wept	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She				enough, sad property	tree rules
2	is	past	her husband		home		with her = she	tree rules
3	is	past	husband				away property	tree rules
4	see	would	she	nobody				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nobody=Stimulus
5	sit	past	she not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	weep	past	she not said here			day	long property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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