The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 58

Then he picks up stones in the road and sows them instead of potatoes, and one day he wanted to go into the garden from the top window, because he declared it was a shorter way than through the door.”

Who acts: husband, mouth · What happens: pick up, sow, want, go, declare, be · To what, where: stones, road, garden, shorter way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, mouth), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 picks	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 picks	nsubj
3	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 picks	compound:prt
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 picks	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picks	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sows	cc
10	sows	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 picks	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sows	obj
12	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	14 potatoes	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 instead	fixed
14	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sows	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wanted	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wanted	cc
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 day	nummod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wanted	obl:unmarked
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wanted	nsubj
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 picks	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	xcomp
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 garden	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 garden	det
25	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 window	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 window	det
28	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 window	amod
29	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 declared	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 declared	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 declared	nsubj
33	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wanted	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 way	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 way	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 way	det
37	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 way	amod
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 declared	ccomp
39	than	than	ADP	_	42 door	case
40	through	through	ADP	_	42 door	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 door	det
42	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 way	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 picks	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 picks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	present	husband	stones	the road	then		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic
2	sow	present	husband not said here	stones = stone			instead potatoes	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	want	past	husband			day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	husband not said here		the garden		from the top window	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location from window=Destination
5	declare speech: other	past	husband					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	mouth	a shorter way			than the door	tree rules

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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