--- title: One day, when his wife had been particularly unkind and had beaten h… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One day, when his wife had been particularly unkind and had beaten him black and blue, he strolled slowly into the fields, and as he could not endure to be idle he spread out his nets. Who acts: wife, man. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/4/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Two in a Sack](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/) / 4 # The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 4 One day, when his wife had been particularly unkind and had beaten him black and blue, he strolled slowly into the fields, and as he could not endure to be idle he spread out his nets. **Who acts:** wife, man · **What happens:** be, beat, stroll, not endure, spread out · **To what, where:** man, fields, nets This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, man), 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:pg641:17:4 # text = One day, when his wife had been particularly unkind and had beaten him black and blue, he strolled slowly into the fields, and as he could not endure to be idle he spread out his nets. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 8 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 cop _ _ 9 particularly particularly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 strolled stroll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 21 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 endure endure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 34 idle idle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 advcl _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 nets net NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past · perfect | man's wife | | | | day | particularly, unkind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **beat** | past · perfect | man's wife *not said here* | man | | | | black *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | | 3 | **stroll** | past | man | | | the fields | | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into field=Destination | | 4 | **not** **endure** | could | man | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | | | | | idle *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **spread out** | past | man | man's nets | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location net=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/5/) - ↑ back to [Two in a Sack](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/)