The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 160

At night, when the husband came home, he found his wife lying dead upon the ground, her body all swollen and disfigured, but the girl was nowhere to be seen.

Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: come, find, lie, disfigure, see · To what, where: wife, ground, girl

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 husband	det
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 night	conj
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
14	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 wife	acl
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lying	xcomp
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lying	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 body	punct
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 body	nmod:poss
21	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wife	conj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 swollen	det
23	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 found	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 disfigured	cc
25	disfigured	disfigure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 seen	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 seen	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 girl	det
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 seen	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 seen	aux:pass
31	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 seen	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	34 seen	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 seen	aux:pass
34	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 disfigured	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the husband				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	husband	husband's wife and wife's body		night		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent wife=Theme swollen=Attribute
3	lie	gerund	husband's wife and wife's body not said here		the ground		dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=Location
4	disfigure	past	husband not said here					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	see	past · passive		the girl			nowhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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