The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 23

And at the sight of her husband’s misery the woman became more wretched than ever.

Who acts: woman · What happens: become, sight · To what, where: sight, misery

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 became	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 sight	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sight	det
4	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 became	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 misery	case
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	9 misery	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 husband	case
9	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sight	nmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 wretched	advmod
14	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 became	xcomp
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 ever	case
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 wretched	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the woman			the sight of house's husband's misery		wretched property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	sight			house's husband's misery					nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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