The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 59

Here she is falling on my neck, but when I was pining in prison and sent her word of it she did nothing to help me.’

Who acts: wife, I · What happens: fall, pine, send, do, help, word · To what, where: neck, prison, word, nothing, me

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, I), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 falling	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 falling	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 falling	aux
4	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 neck	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neck	nmod:poss
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 falling	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pining	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 pining	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 pining	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 pining	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pining	aux
13	pining	pine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 falling	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 prison	case
15	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pining	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sent	cc
17	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pining	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 word	nmod:poss
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sent	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 word	nmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 word	acl:relcl
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 did	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 help	mark
26	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 nothing	acl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 help	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 falling	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 falling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	fall	present · progressive	wife			my neck; here	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=Location
2	pine	past · progressive	I			prison	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	send	past	I not said here	wife's word of word			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
4	do	past	wife	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
5	help	to-infinitive	wife not said here	nothing not said here	me		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
6	word		wife	word			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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