The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 108

But the ogre’s wife was still alive, for she had taken no part in kindling the fire.

Who acts: wife, part · What happens: be, take, kindle · To what, where: part, fire

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, part), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 alive	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ogre	det
3	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 ogre	case
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 alive	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 alive	cop
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 alive	advmod
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 taken	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 taken	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 taken	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	aux
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 alive	advcl
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 part	det
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taken	obj
16	in	in	SCONJ	_	17 kindling	mark
17	kindling	kindle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 part	acl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fire	det
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kindling	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 alive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ogre's wife		still	alive property	tree rules
2	take	past · perfect	wife	no part			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
3	kindle	gerund	no part not said here	the fire			vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=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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