The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 37
His wife, hearing him chattering goodness knows what, took up her wet broom and swept the ground all about him.
Who acts: wife · What happens: hear, chatter, know, take up, sweep · To what, where: soul, goodness, wet broom, ground · 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 (wife), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wife | punct |
| 4 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 wife | acl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hearing | obj |
| 6 | chattering | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 hearing | advcl |
| 7 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chattering | obj |
| 8 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 took | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 knows | ccomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 took | compound:prt |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 broom | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 broom | amod |
| 15 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 swept | cc |
| 17 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swept | obj |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 him | advmod |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 swept | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | soul's wife not said here | soul | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | chatter | gerund | soul's wife not said here | goodness | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goodness=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | present | soul's wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | take up | past | wife's wet broom | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme broom=Destination | |||||
| 5 | sweep | past | the ground | about soul | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ground=Theme about he=Trajectory |
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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