The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 12

The tiny, tumble-down cottage was rebuilt, the girls had new dresses, and their mother ceased selling veils.

Who acts: girls, mother · What happens: rebuild, have, cease, sell · To what, where: tiny down cottage, new dresses, veils

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cottage	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cottage	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tiny	punct
4	tumble	tumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 down	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tumble	punct
6	down	down	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cottage	amod
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rebuilt	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rebuilt	aux:pass
9	rebuilt	rebuild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girls	det
12	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rebuilt	parataxis
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dresses	amod
15	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ceased	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ceased	cc
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ceased	nsubj
20	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	conj
21	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 ceased	xcomp
22	veils	veil	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 selling	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 rebuilt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	rebuild	past · passive		the tiny down cottage	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	have	past	the girls	new dresses	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient
3	cease	past	girls's mother		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	sell	gerund	girls's mother not said here	veils	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=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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