More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 51

She used to wander in the meadows by his side, or ride behind him over the hills, but all the flax grown on his land was sent to old Habetrot to be converted into yarn.

Who acts: wife · What happens: use, wander, ride, grow, send, convert · To what, where: meadows, hills, flax, land, old Habetrot, yarn

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. 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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wander	mark
4	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 meadows	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meadows	det
7	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wander	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 side	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 side	nmod:poss
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wander	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ride	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 ride	cc
13	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wander	conj
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ride	obl
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 hills	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hills	det
18	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ride	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sent	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 sent	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 flax	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 flax	det
23	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sent	nsubj:pass
24	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 flax	acl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 land	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 land	nmod:poss
27	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grown	obl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sent	aux:pass
29	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 used	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 Habetrot	case
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Habetrot	amod
32	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 sent	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	35 converted	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 converted	aux:pass
35	converted	convert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 sent	advcl
36	into	into	ADP	_	37 yarn	case
37	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 converted	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past	wife					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	wander	to-infinitive	wife not said here			the meadows	by face's side	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meadow=Trajectory
3	ride	infinitive	wife not said here			the hills	behind face	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hill=Trajectory
4	grow	participle		all flax not said here		face's land		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location
5	send	past · passive		all flax	old Habetrot			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to habetrot=Destination
6	convert	to-infinitive · passive					into yarn result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into yarn=Result

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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