The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 71

However, enough cattle were left to make the young man rich, and he and his wife lived happily together, except that every now and then the girl vanished from his sight, and never told him where she had been.

Who acts: husband, girl · What happens: leave, make, live, vanish, not tell, be · To what, where: enough cattle, young man, sight, husband · 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 (husband, girl), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 left	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cattle	amod
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 left	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux:pass
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 left	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
12	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 make	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lived	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lived	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lived	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wife	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 he	conj
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	conj
20	happily	happily	ADV	_	19 lived	advmod
21	together	together	ADV	_	19 lived	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 that	punct
23	except	except	ADP	_	24 that	case
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 lived	obl
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 that	conj
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 vanished	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 vanished	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 vanished	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 girl	det
30	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 vanished	nsubj
31	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 every	advcl
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 sight	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 sight	nmod:poss
34	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 vanished	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 told	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 told	cc
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 told	advmod
38	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 vanished	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 told	iobj
40	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	43 been	advmod
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 been	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 been	aux
43	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 told	ccomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		enough cattle				however property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive		the young man				rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product
3	live	past	husband					except that; happily, together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	vanish	past	the girl			husband's sight	now; then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location
5	not tell speech: assert	past	the girl not said here		husband				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	be	past · perfect	girl						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sight		husband						nom sight «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 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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