English Fairy Tales, XLII. Master of All Masters., sentence 11

In passionate Sicily a wife disgusted with her husband's pedantry sets the house on fire, and informs her husband of the fact in this unintelligible gibberish; he, not understanding his own lingo, falls a victim to the flames, and she marries the servant who had taken the message.

Who acts: wife, husband, servant · What happens: disgust, set, inform, not understand, fall, marry · To what, where: wife, house, passionate Sicily, husband, unintelligible gibberish, own lingo

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLII. Master of All Masters.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, husband, servant), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 Sicily	case
2	passionate	passionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Sicily	amod
3	Sicily	Sicily	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sets	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wife	det
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sets	nsubj
6	disgusted	disgust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wife	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 pedantry	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pedantry	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 husband	case
11	pedantry	pedantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disgusted	obl
12	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sets	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 fire	case
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 house	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 informs	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 informs	cc
19	informs	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sets	conj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 husband	nmod:poss
21	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 informs	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 fact	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fact	det
24	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 husband	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 gibberish	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 gibberish	det
27	unintelligible	unintelligible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 gibberish	amod
28	gibberish	gibberish	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 informs	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 understanding	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 understanding	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 understanding	punct
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 understanding	advmod
33	understanding	understand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sets	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 lingo	nmod:poss
35	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 lingo	amod
36	lingo	lingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 understanding	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 falls	punct
38	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 understanding	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 victim	det
40	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 falls	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 flames	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 flames	det
43	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 falls	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 marries	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 marries	cc
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 marries	nsubj
47	marries	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sets	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 servant	det
49	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 marries	obj
50	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 taken	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 taken	aux
52	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 servant	acl:relcl
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 message	det
54	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 taken	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	disgust	participle		a wife not said here			with wife's husband's pedantry	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	set	present	a wife	the house		passionate Sicily	on fire	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme on fire=Destination
3	inform speech: other	present	a wife not said here		wife's husband of the fact	this unintelligible gibberish		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient
4	not understand	gerund	husband	husband's own lingo				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lingo=Stimulus
5	fall	present	husband not said here	a victim			to the flames result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient victim=Extent to flame=Result
6	marry	present	wife	the servant				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient
7	take	past · perfect	the servant	the message				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=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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