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title: His wife, who was still in a very bad temper, told him the whole sto… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His wife, who was still in a very bad temper, told him the whole story, and scolded him roundly for being so silly as to make such a fuss over a bird. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 63

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His wife, who was still in a very bad temper, told him the whole story, and scolded him roundly for being so silly as to make such a fuss over a bird.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** be, tell, scold, make · **To what, where:** bad temper, whole story, man, fuss · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg5615:36:63
# text = His wife, who was still in a very bad temper, told him the whole story, and scolded him roundly for being so silly as to make such a fuss over a bird.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	scolded	scold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	roundly	roundly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	32	det:predet	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fuss	fuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | man's wife and a bad temper |  |  | a bad temper | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | man's wife and a bad temper | the whole story | man |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic |
| 3 | **scold** | past | man's wife and a bad temper *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | man's wife and a bad temper *not said here* |  |  |  |  | roundly, silly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | man's wife and a bad temper *not said here* | such fuss |  |  |  | over a bird | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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