English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 74
Well, when her husband came in, there were the five skeins ready for him.
Who acts: husband, five skeins · What happens: come in, be
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, five skeins), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 when | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 husband | nmod:poss |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 were | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 were | expl |
| 10 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 skeins | det |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 skeins | nummod |
| 13 | skeins | skein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 were | nsubj |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 skeins | amod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ready | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | Noo's husband | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | past | the five skeins | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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