The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 25

This time the money seemed so endless that the old woman built herself a new house, and filled it with the most beautiful things that were to be found in the shops.

Who acts: money, old woman · What happens: seem, build, fill, find · To what, where: woman, house, beautiful things, shops

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 (money, old woman), 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	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	nsubj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 endless	advmod
7	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seemed	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 built	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 built	nsubj
12	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 endless	advcl
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 built	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 house	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 house	amod
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 built	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 filled	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 filled	cc
19	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seemed	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 filled	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	25 things	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 things	det
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 beautiful	advmod
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 things	amod
25	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 filled	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 found	nsubj:pass
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 found	aux:pass
28	to	to	PART	_	30 found	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 found	aux:pass
30	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 things	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 shops	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shops	det
33	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 found	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the money			time	endless property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	build	past	the old woman	woman				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset herself=Beneficiary house=Product
3	fill	past	the money not said here	house			with the beautiful things	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with thing=Instrument
4	find	past · passive	the money not said here	the beautiful things	the shops			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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