The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 71
His wife, daughter, and son-in-law all went out to meet him.
Who acts: wife · What happens: go out, meet · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. 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 | 13 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 daughter | punct |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 law | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 law | cc |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 law | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 law | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 law | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 in | punct |
| 11 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | conj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 went | advmod |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 went | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 meet | mark |
| 16 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 meet | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | bearer's wife and daughter and law | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | bearer's wife and daughter and law not said here | son | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
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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