--- title: ‘When thy wife came home,’ answered the farmer, ‘she saw the pack-sa… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘When thy wife came home,’ answered the farmer, ‘she saw the pack-saddle over her head, and she thought how dreadful it would be if it were to fall and kill her.’ Who acts: wife, 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 (wife, 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:pg3454:36:38 # text = ‘When thy wife came home,’ answered the farmer, ‘she saw the pack-saddle over her head, and she thought how dreadful it would be if it were to fall and kill her.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 3 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 6 home home ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 9 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 over over ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 27 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 28 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 ccomp _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | thy wife | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | | the farmer | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent farmer=Eventuality | | 3 | **see** | past | wife | the pack saddle | | wife's head | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saddle=Stimulus | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | wife | | | | | | 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* | wife | | | | | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/39/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/)