The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 42

The girl had been born in the town, and had scarcely ever left it; but the young man was a native of another country, and had only come to the city near the great river because he could find no work to do where he was.

Who acts: young man, man · What happens: bear, have, leave, be, come, find · To what, where: girl, town, native, great river, work

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 born	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 born	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 born	aux:pass
5	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 town	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 born	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 born	conj
12	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	14 left	advmod
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 left	advmod
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 native	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 native	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 native	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 native	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 native	det
23	native	native	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 born	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 country	case
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 country	det
26	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 native	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 come	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 come	cc
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 come	advmod
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 born	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 city	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 city	det
34	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	obl
35	near	near	ADP	_	38 river	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 river	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 river	amod
38	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	obl
39	because	because	SCONJ	_	42 find	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 find	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 find	aux
42	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 come	advcl
43	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 work	det
44	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 find	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 do	mark
46	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 work	acl
47	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	49 was	advmod
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 was	nsubj
49	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 do	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · perfect · passive		the girl	the town			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	have	past						tree rules
3	leave	past		town		ever	scarcely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is a	past	the young man	a native			of another country	tree rules
5	come	past			the great river		to the city	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location
6	find	could	man	no work				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic
7	do	to-infinitive	man not said here	no work not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	be	past	man					vn exist-47.1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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