The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 113

The old woman was so laughed at that she had to hold her tongue and obey her husband ever after, and the man bought wares with part of the treasure and moved into the town, where he opened a shop, and prospered, and spent the rest of his days in peace.

Who acts: woman, man, husband · What happens: laugh, have, hold, obey, buy, move · To what, where: old woman, that, tongue, husband, wares, town

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laughed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	aux:pass
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 laughed	advmod
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 laughed	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hold	mark
12	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tongue	nmod:poss
14	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hold	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 obey	cc
16	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hold	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 husband	nmod:poss
18	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 obey	obj
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 after	advmod
20	after	after	ADV	_	16 obey	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bought	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bought	nsubj
25	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	parataxis
26	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bought	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 part	case
28	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bought	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 treasure	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 treasure	det
31	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 part	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 moved	cc
33	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bought	conj
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 town	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 town	det
36	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 moved	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 opened	punct
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 opened	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 opened	nsubj
40	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 town	acl:relcl
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 shop	det
42	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 opened	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 prospered	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 prospered	cc
45	prospered	prosper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bought	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 spent	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 spent	cc
48	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 prospered	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 rest	det
50	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 spent	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 days	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 days	nmod:poss
53	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 rest	nmod
54	in	in	ADP	_	55 peace	case
55	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 spent	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · passive		the old woman	that		tree rules
2	have	past	woman				tree rules
3	hold	to-infinitive	woman not said here	woman's tongue			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
4	obey	infinitive	woman not said here	woman's husband		after property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme
5	buy	past	the man	wares		with part of the treasure	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=Theme
6	move	past	the man not said here		the town		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into town=Trajectory
7	open	past	husband	a shop			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shop=Theme
8	prosper	past	the man not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	spend	past	the man not said here	the rest of husband's days	peace		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset

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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