The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 19

The man called loudly to his wife to bring a spade, and followed the dog, as he longed to catch the first glimpse of the expected treasure.

Who acts: man · What happens: call, bring, follow, long, catch, expect · To what, where: man, wife, spade, dog, first glimpse, expected treasure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 followed	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 man	acl
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 wife	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bring	mark
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wife	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spade	det
11	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 followed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 followed	cc
14	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dog	det
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 followed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 longed	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 longed	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 longed	nsubj
20	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 followed	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 catch	mark
22	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 longed	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 glimpse	det
24	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 glimpse	amod
25	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 catch	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 treasure	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 treasure	det
28	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 treasure	amod
29	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 glimpse	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	participle		the man not said here	man's wife	loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
2	bring	to-infinitive		a spade			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spade=Theme
3	follow	past	the man	the dog			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
4	long	past	man				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	the first glimpse of the expected treasure			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme
6	expect	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	glimpse			the expected treasure			nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient

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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