--- title: ‘Oh!’ replied his wife, ‘when our daughter came home, did she not se… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Oh!’ replied his wife, ‘when our daughter came home, did she not see the pack-saddle over her head, and she thought how dreadful it would be if it were to fall and kill her.’ Who acts: daughter, saddle. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, saddle), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:36:34 # text = ‘Oh!’ replied his wife, ‘when our daughter came home, did she not see the pack-saddle over her head, and she thought how dreadful it would be if it were to fall and kill her.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 5 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 11 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 home home ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 over over ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 32 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 ccomp _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 36 if if SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ _ 43 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | | farmer's wife | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | | 2 | **come** | past | our daughter | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | daughter | the pack saddle | | daughter's head | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saddle=Stimulus | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | daughter | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | infinitive | saddle | | | | | dreadful *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **fall** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | saddle | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **kill** | infinitive | saddle *not said here* | daughter | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/35/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/)