The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 34
But her curiosity still continued to torment her, and after restraining it with a great effort for a couple of days, she began questioning her husband again, as to what had happened, and how he had managed.
Who acts: curiosity, fortune · What happens: continue, torment, restrain, begin, question, happen · To what, where: fortune, splendour, husband
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 (curiosity, fortune), 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 | _ | 5 continued | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 3 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 continued | advmod |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 torment | mark |
| 7 | torment | torment | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 continued | xcomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 torment | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 began | cc |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 restraining | mark |
| 12 | restraining | restrain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 began | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 restraining | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 effort | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 effort | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 effort | amod |
| 17 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 restraining | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 couple | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 couple | det |
| 20 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 effort | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 days | case |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 couple | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 restraining | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 began | nsubj |
| 25 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 continued | conj |
| 26 | questioning | question | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 began | xcomp |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 husband | nmod:poss |
| 28 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 questioning | obj |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 questioning | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 happened | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 happened | mark |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 as | fixed |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 happened | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 happened | aux |
| 35 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 began | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 managed | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 managed | cc |
| 38 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 managed | advmod |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 managed | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 managed | aux |
| 41 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 happened | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | fortune's curiosity | still | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | torment | to-infinitive | fortune's curiosity not said here | fortune | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | restrain | gerund | fortune not said here | splendour | with a great effort for a couple of days | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | begin | past | fortune | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | question speech: other | gerund | fortune not said here | fortune's husband | again | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient | |||
| 6 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | manage | past · perfect | curiosity | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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