The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 61
But her husband only shook his head and shrugged his shoulders as if he could not believe his own eyes.
Who acts: husband · What happens: shake, shrug, not believe · To what, where: head, shoulders, own eyes
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 shook | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 shook | advmod |
| 5 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shook | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shrugged | cc |
| 9 | shrugged | shrug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shook | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shrugged | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 believe | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 believe | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 believe | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 believe | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 believe | advmod |
| 17 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 shrugged | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 believe | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | luck's husband | husband's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shrug | past | luck's husband not said here | husband's shoulders | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not believe | could | husband | husband's own eyes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus |
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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