The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 4
‘Dear wife, what is wrong with you that you hang your head like a drooping rosebud?’ asked her husband one morning.
Who acts: Dear wife, you · What happens: be, hang, droop, ask · To what, where: head, husband
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 (Dear wife, you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wife | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrong | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 wrong | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrong | cop |
| 7 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wife | acl:relcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wrong | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 hang | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 hang | nsubj |
| 12 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrong | advcl |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hang | obj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 rosebud | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rosebud | det |
| 17 | drooping | droop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 rosebud | amod |
| 18 | rosebud | rosebud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hang | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wife | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wife | punct |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 husband | nmod:poss |
| 23 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | obj |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 morning | nummod |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Dear wife | with you; wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hang | present | you | your head | like a drooping rosebud | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 3 | droop | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Dear wife | wife's husband | morning | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient |
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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