--- title: The wife was a good wife enough, but her mind was all on her family… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The wife was a good wife enough, but her mind was all on her family and her farm, and she hardly ever went to her knees without falling asleep, and she thought the time spent in the chapel was twice as long as it need be. Who acts: wife, mind, time. 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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, mind, time), 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:pg3454:6:83 # text = The wife was a good wife enough, but her mind was all on her family and her farm, and she hardly ever went to her knees without falling asleep, and she thought the time spent in the chapel was twice as long as it need be. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 enough enough ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 13 all all ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 25 advmod _ _ 25 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 without without SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 31 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 38 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 acl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 chapel chapel NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 43 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 45 advmod _ _ 44 as as ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 46 as as SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 49 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the wife | a good wife but wife's family and wife's farm | | | | enough *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | wife's mind | | | wife's family and wife's farm | | all *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | past | wife | | | wife's knees | ever | hardly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to knee=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **fall** | gerund | wife *not said here* | | | | | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | wife | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **spend** | participle | | the time *not said here* | | the chapel | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | past | the time | | | | | long, twice *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **need** | present | mind | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 9 | **be** *not said to happen* | infinitive | mind *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **mind** | | wife | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/84/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/)