The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 30

So the man went home, and there was his wife no longer in the hut, but in its place was a beautiful cottage, and his wife was sitting in front of the door on a bench.

Who acts: man, wife · What happens: go, be, sit · To what, where: beautiful cottage, place, front

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 was	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
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	9 was	nsubj
12	no	no	ADV	_	13 longer	advmod
13	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 was	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hut	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hut	det
16	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 longer	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cottage	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 cottage	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 place	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 place	nmod:poss
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cottage	obl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cottage	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cottage	det
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cottage	amod
25	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sitting	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sitting	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wife	nmod:poss
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sitting	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sitting	aux
31	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 front	case
33	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sitting	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 door	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 door	det
36	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 front	nmod
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 bench	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bench	det
39	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sitting	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the man			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	man's wife		there	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past		a beautiful cottage	hut's place		tree rules
4	sit	past · progressive	man's wife		front of the door	on a bench	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location

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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