--- title: ‘Ah, dear father,’ she replied, ‘I have come home in great grief; my… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Ah, dear father,’ she replied, ‘I have come home in great grief; my husband fell ill on the voyage quite suddenly, and died, and if the good captain had not given me help, I should have died too. Who acts: lady, I, husband. 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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 (lady, I, husband), 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:pg7277:46:51 # text = ‘Ah, dear father,’ she replied, ‘I have come home in great grief; my husband fell ill on the voyage quite suddenly, and died, and if the good captain had not given me help, I should have died too. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ _ 15 home home ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 23 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 voyage voyage NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 quite quite ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 34 if if SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 advcl _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 iobj _ _ 42 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 44 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 45 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 46 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 47 aux _ _ 47 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 48 too too ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | lady | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | present · perfect | I | | | great grief | | home *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grief=Location | | 3 | **fall** | past | my husband | | | the voyage | | ill, suddenly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on voyage=Location | | 4 | **die** | past | my husband *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **not** **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | | the good captain | me | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **die** | should · perfect | I | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/52/) - ↑ back to [The Three Snake-leaves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/)