--- title: For some years the poor man lived on alone with the children, caring… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: For some years the poor man lived on alone with the children, caring for them as best he could; but everything in the house seemed to go wrong without a woman to look after it, and at last he made up his mind to marry again, feeling that a wife would bring peace and order to his household and take c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/39/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Witch (28)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/39/) / 3 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 3 For some years the poor man lived on alone with the children, caring for them as best he could; but everything in the house seemed to go wrong without a woman to look after it, and at last he made up his mind to marry again, feeling that a wife would bring peace and order to his household and take care of his motherless children. **Who acts:** poor man, everything, man, wife · **What happens:** live, care, seem, go, look, make up · **To what, where:** best, mind, last, peace, household, care This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, everything, man, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:39:3 # text = For some years the poor man lived on alone with the children, caring for them as best he could; but everything in the house seemed to go wrong without a woman to look after it, and at last he made up his mind to marry again, feeling that a wife would bring peace and order to his household and take care of his motherless children. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 alone alone ADV RB _ 7 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 caring care VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 advcl _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 as as ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 obj _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 27 nsubj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 wrong wrong ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 without without ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 36 after after ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 44 up up ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 advcl _ _ 49 again again ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 advcl _ _ 52 that that SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ _ 55 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 56 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 advcl _ _ 57 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obj _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 59 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 conj _ _ 60 to to ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 62 nmod:poss _ _ 62 household household NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 64 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 conj _ _ 65 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obj _ _ 66 of of ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 67 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 69 nmod:poss _ _ 68 motherless motherless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 amod _ _ 69 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 64 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | the poor man | | | | year | with the children | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with child=Location | | 2 | **care** | gerund | the poor man *not said here* | best | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **seem** | past | everything | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | everything *not said here* | | | | | without a woman; wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | everything *not said here* | | | | after house | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **make up** | past | man | man's mind | | last | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 7 | **marry** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | | | | again | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **feel** | gerund | man *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 9 | **bring** | would | a wife | peace and order | | man's household | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent peace=Theme to household=Destination | | 10 | **take** | infinitive | a wife *not said here* | care | | | | of man's motherless children | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of child=Initial\_Location | | 11 | **mind** | | man | | | | | | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/39/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/39/4/) - ↑ back to [The Witch (28)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/39/)