The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 66

They had been very happy all these years, but they would have been happier still if they had had any children; but old though they were they had never made up their minds to do without them, and often they would sit over the fire and talk of how they would have brought up their children if only some had come to their house.

Who acts: men, some · What happens: be, have, not make up, do, sit, bring up · To what, where: children, men, fire, house

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, some), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 happy	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 happy	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 years	det:predet
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 years	det
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 happy	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 happier	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 happier	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 happier	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 happier	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 happier	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 happier	cop
15	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 happy	conj
16	still	still	ADV	_	20 had	advmod
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	aux
20	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 happier	advcl
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 children	det
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 old	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 old	cc
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 happy	conj
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 made	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 made	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 made	aux:pass
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 made	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 made	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 made	advmod
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 old	advcl
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 made	compound:prt
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 minds	nmod:poss
35	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 made	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 do	mark
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 made	advcl
38	without	without	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 do	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sit	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sit	cc
42	often	often	ADV	_	45 sit	advmod
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 sit	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 sit	aux
45	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happy	conj
46	over	over	ADP	_	48 fire	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 fire	det
48	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sit	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 talk	cc
50	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fire	conj
51	of	of	SCONJ	_	56 brought	mark
52	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	56 brought	advmod
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 brought	nsubj:pass
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 brought	aux
55	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 brought	aux
56	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 talk	acl
57	up	up	ADP	_	56 brought	compound:prt
58	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 children	nmod:poss
59	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 brought	obj
60	if	if	SCONJ	_	64 come	mark
61	only	only	ADV	_	64 come	advmod
62	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	64 come	nsubj
63	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 come	aux
64	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	56 brought	advcl
65	to	to	ADP	_	67 house	case
66	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 house	nmod:poss
67	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 come	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	men = man			year	happy property	tree rules
2	is	would · perfect	men = man				happy property	tree rules
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	men = man	any children		still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	be		men = man not said here					tree rules
5	not make up	past · perfect · passive		men = man				tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive					without men = man	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sit	would	men = man		the fire and talk		often property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fire=Location
8	bring up	would · perfect · passive		men = man				tree rules
9	come a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	some		men's house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
10	mind		men = 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 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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