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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 82

His parents were delighted to hear of his good fortune, and his father gave him his own sword, which was growing rusty for want of use, while his mother saw that his leather jerkin was in order.

Who acts: parents, father, own sword, mother, leather jerkin · What happens: be, hear, give, grow, see, want · To what, where: own sword, Rosald, order, use · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, father, own sword, mother), 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

nmod:possnsubjcopmarkadvclcasenmod:possamodoblpunctccnmod:possnsubjparataxisiobjnmod:possamodobjpunctnsubjauxaclxcompcaseoblcasenmodpunctmarknmod:possnsubjconjmarknmod:posscompoundnsubjcopcaseccomppunctrootHisPRONparentsNOUNwereAUXdelightedADJtoPARThearVERBofADPhisPRONgoodADJfortuneNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONfatherNOUNgaveVERBhimPRONhisPRONownADJswordNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONwasAUXgrowingVERBrustyADJforADPwantNOUNofADPuseNOUN,PUNCTwhileSCONJhisPRONmotherNOUNsawVERBthatSCONJhisPRONleatherNOUNjerkinNOUNwasAUXinADPorderNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 parentsnmod:poss
2parentsparentNOUNNumber=Plur4 delightednsubj
3werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 delightedcop
4delighteddelightedADJDegree=Posrootroot
5totoPART_6 hearmark
6hearhearVERBVerbForm=Inf4 delightedadvcl
7ofofADP_10 fortunecase
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 fortunenmod:poss
9goodgoodADJDegree=Pos10 fortuneamod
10fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing6 hearobl
11,,PUNCT_15 gavepunct
12andandCCONJ_15 gavecc
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 fathernmod:poss
14fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing15 gavensubj
15gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 delightedparataxis
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 gaveiobj
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 swordnmod:poss
18ownownADJDegree=Pos19 swordamod
19swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing15 gaveobj
20,,PUNCT_23 growingpunct
21whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel23 growingnsubj
22wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 growingaux
23growinggrowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 swordacl
24rustyrustyADJDegree=Pos23 growingxcomp
25forforADP_26 wantcase
26wantwantNOUNNumber=Sing23 growingobl
27ofofADP_28 usecase
28useuseNOUNNumber=Sing26 wantnmod
29,,PUNCT_33 sawpunct
30whilewhileSCONJ_33 sawmark
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 mothernmod:poss
32mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing33 sawnsubj
33sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 gaveconj
34thatthatSCONJ_40 ordermark
35hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 jerkinnmod:poss
36leatherleatherNOUNNumber=Sing37 jerkincompound
37jerkinjerkinNOUNNumber=Sing40 ordernsubj
38wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin40 ordercop
39ininADP_40 ordercase
40orderorderNOUNNumber=Sing33 sawccomp
41..PUNCT_4 delightedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastRosald's parentsdelighted propertytree rules
2hearto-infinitiveRosald's parents not said hereof Rosald's good fortunevn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fortune=Stimulus
3givepastRosald's fatherRosald's own swordRosaldvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sword=Theme
4growpast · progressiveRosald's own swordfor want of use; rusty propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5seepastRosald's mothervn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6ispastRosald's leather jerkinordertree rules
7wantusenom want «state transitive»: of=patient

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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