The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 2

Not a day passed without her scolding him and calling him names, and indeed sometimes she would take the broom from behind the stove and beat him with it.

Who acts: day, life · What happens: not pass, scold, call, take, beat · To what, where: man, broom, stove · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, life), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 passed	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 scolding	mark
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scolding	nsubj
7	scolding	scold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 passed	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scolding	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 calling	cc
10	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 scolding	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 calling	obj
12	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 calling	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 take	cc
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 sometimes	advmod
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 take	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 passed	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 broom	det
21	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 stove	case
23	behind	behind	ADP	_	25 stove	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stove	det
25	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 beat	cc
27	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 take	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 beat	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 beat	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not pass	past	a day				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scold	gerund	life	man			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	call	gerund	life not said here	man			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme name=Result
4	take	would	life	the broom	the stove	sometimes property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent broom=Theme from stove=Initial_Location
5	beat	infinitive	life not said here	man		with stove	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with it=Instrument

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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