The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 4

One day, when his wife had been particularly unkind and had beaten him black and blue, he strolled slowly into the fields, and as he could not endure to be idle he spread out his nets.

Who acts: wife, man · What happens: be, beat, stroll, not endure, spread out · To what, where: man, fields, nets

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, man), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 unkind	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 unkind	advmod
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 unkind	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 unkind	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 unkind	cop
9	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	10 unkind	advmod
10	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 beaten	cc
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 beaten	aux
13	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 unkind	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 beaten	obj
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beaten	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 blue	cc
17	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 black	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 strolled	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 strolled	nsubj
20	strolled	stroll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 unkind	conj
21	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	20 strolled	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 fields	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fields	det
24	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 strolled	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 endure	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 endure	cc
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 endure	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 endure	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 endure	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 endure	advmod
31	endure	endure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 unkind	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	34 idle	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 idle	cop
34	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 spread	advcl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 spread	nsubj
36	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 endure	conj
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 spread	compound:prt
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 nets	nmod:poss
39	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 spread	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 unkind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	man's wife			day	particularly, unkind property	tree rules
2	beat	past · perfect	man's wife not said here	man			black property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
3	stroll	past	man		the fields		slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into field=Destination
4	not endure	could	man					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive	man not said here				idle property	tree rules
6	spread out	past	man	man's nets				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location net=Theme

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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