The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 89

Not long after this one of them quarrelled with his wife, and in his rage he thrust his knife into her breast so that she fell dead on the ground.

Who acts: rogue, woman · What happens: quarrell, thrust, fall, rage · To what, where: knife, rage, ground

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rogue, woman), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 quarrelled	advmod
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 one	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 quarrelled	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nmod
8	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 wife	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 quarrelled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thrust	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thrust	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 rage	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 rage	nmod:poss
16	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thrust	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thrust	nsubj
18	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 quarrelled	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 knife	nmod:poss
20	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thrust	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 breast	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 breast	nmod:poss
23	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thrust	obl
24	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 fell	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 thrust	advcl
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fell	xcomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 ground	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ground	det
31	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 quarrelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quarrell	past				after this one of friends	with rogue's wife; long property	tree rules
2	thrust	past	rogue	rogue's knife	rogue's rage		into woman's breast	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
3	fall	past	woman		the ground		dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location
4	rage		rogue					nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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