The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 112

The others didn’t see much use in this, but she had her way in the end: they sold all the sheep, shut up the house, and set out for Rome on foot.

Who acts: others, mother, sheep · What happens: not see, use, have, sell, shut up, set out · To what, where: this, way, end, sheep, house, foot

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, mother, sheep), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 use	advmod
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 use	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	parataxis
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 end	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 end	det
18	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 sold	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sold	nsubj
21	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	parataxis
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 sheep	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sheep	det
24	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sold	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shut	punct
26	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 sheep	acl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 shut	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 house	det
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shut	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 set	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 set	cc
32	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sold	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 set	compound:prt
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 Rome	case
35	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 set	obl
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 foot	case
37	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 set	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · do-support	the others					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	use	infinitive	the others not said here		this			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	mother	mother's way		in the end		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
4	sell	past	others = other	all sheep				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
5	shut up	participle	all sheep not said here	the house				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient
6	set out	past	others = other not said here		foot		for Rome	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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