Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 129
"Well," said the husband, looking at her, "I'm in dread it's my wife that has gone."
Who acts: husband, dread, wife · What happens: say, look, be, go · To what, where: dread, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, dread, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 husband | det |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looking | punct |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dread | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 dread | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 dread | nsubj |
| 15 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dread | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 dread | case |
| 17 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looking | obl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 wife | cop |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dread | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 gone | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 gone | aux |
| 24 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 wife | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | the husband not said here | at sister | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the husband = husband | dread | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | dread | my wife | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | present · perfect | my wife | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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