The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 63

In fact, for several weeks there was no work done on the farm at all; and at length the young man and his wife grew tired of so much play, and declared that they must return to their own home.

Who acts: work, young man, men · What happens: be, do, grow, declare, return · To what, where: fact, work, farm, length · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work, young man, men), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 weeks	case
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weeks	amod
6	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 was	obl
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 work	det
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 work	acl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 farm	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 farm	det
14	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 done	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 done	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 grew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grew	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 length	case
20	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grew	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grew	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wife	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wife	nmod:poss
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 man	conj
27	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 was	parataxis
28	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 grew	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 play	case
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 play	amod
32	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tired	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 declared	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 declared	cc
35	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 grew	conj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 return	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 return	nsubj
38	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 return	aux
39	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 declared	ccomp
40	to	to	ADP	_	43 home	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 home	nmod:poss
42	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 home	amod
43	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 return	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no work		fact; there	week		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fact=Location
2	do	participle		no work not said here	the farm		at all	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grow	past	the young man and work's wife		length		tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
4	declare speech: other	past	the young man and work's wife not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	return	must	men = man				to men's own home result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=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: «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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