The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 27

But she was not really in earnest, for her curiosity never left her a moment’s peace by day or night, and she teazed and worried her husband to such a pitch, that at length he quite lost patience and blurted out that it all came from a wonderful golden fish which he had caught and set free again.

Who acts: wife, earnest, curiosity, peace, moment · What happens: not be, not leave, teaz, worry, lose, blurt out · To what, where: wife, length patience, husband, length, wonderful golden fish

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, earnest, curiosity, peace), 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	_	7 earnest	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 earnest	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 earnest	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 earnest	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 earnest	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 earnest	case
7	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 left	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 curiosity	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 curiosity	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 curiosity	nmod:poss
11	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 left	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 left	advmod
13	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 moment	det
16	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 peace	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 moment	case
18	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 left	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 day	case
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 left	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 night	cc
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 day	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 teazed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 teazed	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 teazed	nsubj
26	teazed	teaz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 left	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 worried	cc
28	worried	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 teazed	conj
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 husband	nmod:poss
30	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 worried	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 pitch	case
32	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	34 pitch	det:predet
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 pitch	det
34	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 worried	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 patience	punct
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 length	det
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 length	case
38	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 patience	compound
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 lost	nsubj
40	quite	quite	ADV	_	41 lost	advmod
41	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 length	acl:relcl
42	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 teazed	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 blurted	cc
44	blurted	blurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 teazed	conj
45	out	out	ADP	_	44 blurted	compound:prt
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 came	mark
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 came	nsubj
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 it	det
49	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 blurted	advcl
50	from	from	ADP	_	54 fish	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 fish	det
52	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 fish	amod
53	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 fish	amod
54	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 came	obl
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 caught	nsubj:pass
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 caught	nsubj:pass
57	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 caught	aux
58	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 fish	parataxis
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 set	cc
60	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 caught	conj
61	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 set	xcomp
62	again	again	ADV	_	60 set	advmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	wife			earn property	tree rules
2	not leave	past	earnest	wife	day		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme peace=Attribute
3	teaz	past	wife	length patience			tree rules
4	worry	past	wife not said here	wife's husband		to such pitch	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus husband=Experiencer
5	lose	past	curiosity	that length not said here			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent length=Eventuality
6	blurt out speech: other	participle	wife not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	come	past	peace			from a wonderful golden fish	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from fish=Initial_Location
8	catch	past · perfect · passive		a wonderful golden fish			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
9	set	infinitive			again	free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
10	pacify		a moment				nom peace «state transitive»: 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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