The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 67

This went on for twenty years, and though his sons were now grown up, and went with their father to the forest, everything seemed to go against them, and they remained as poor as ever.

Who acts: This, everything, sons · What happens: go on, grow up, go, seem, remain · To what, where: sons, forest, poor

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, everything, sons), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grown	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 grown	cc
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 grown	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sons	nmod:poss
11	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 grown	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 grown	aux:pass
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 grown	advmod
14	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 grown	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 father	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 forest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seemed	punct
26	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 seemed	nsubj
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seemed	xcomp
30	against	against	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 go	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 remained	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 remained	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 remained	nsubj
35	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 poor	advmod
37	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 remained	obj
38	as	as	ADP	_	39 ever	case
39	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 poor	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	This			year		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow up	past · passive		Lapplandische's sons		now		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	go	past			the forest		with sons's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location
4	seem	past	everything					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	go	to-infinitive	everything not said here				against sons = son	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against they=Location
6	remain	past	sons = son	poor				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme poor=Attribute

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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