English Fairy Tales, The Golden Arm, sentence 7

The husband put on the blackest black, and pulled the longest face at the funeral; but for all that he got up in the middle of the night, dug up the body, and cut off the golden arm.

Who acts: husband · What happens: put, pull, get up, dig up, cut off · To what, where: husband, blackest black, longest face, funeral, middle, body

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulled	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 husband	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 black	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 black	det
6	blackest	black	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 black	amod
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 put	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pulled	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pulled	cc
10	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 face	det
12	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 face	amod
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulled	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 funeral	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 funeral	det
16	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulled	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 got	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 got	cc
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 got	det:predet
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 got	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 got	nsubj
23	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pulled	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 got	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 middle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 middle	det
27	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 got	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 night	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 middle	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dug	punct
32	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 got	advcl
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 dug	compound:prt
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 body	det
35	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dug	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 cut	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 cut	cc
38	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 pulled	conj
39	off	off	ADP	_	42 arm	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 arm	det
41	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 arm	amod
42	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cut	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	put	participle		the husband not said here	the blackest black	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on black=Destination
2	pull	past	the husband	the longest face	the funeral	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent face=Theme at funeral=Asset
3	get up	past	husband		the middle of the night	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	dig up	participle	husband not said here	the body		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Theme
5	cut off	participle	the husband not said here	the golden arm		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector arm=Eventuality

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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