The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 70

So all the answer she made was that the end of thieves was hanging at the bridge of Dublin, and then she left him alone, hoping that when he was older he might become more sensible.

Who acts: answer, end, widow, older · What happens: make, hang, leave, hope, be, become · To what, where: answer, bridge, widow

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (answer, end, widow, older), 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	So	so	ADV	_	14 hanging	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 answer	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 answer	det
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hanging	nsubj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	acl:relcl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hanging	aux
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 hanging	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hanging	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 thieves	case
12	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 end	nmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hanging	aux
14	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 bridge	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bridge	det
17	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hanging	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Dublin	case
19	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 bridge	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 left	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 left	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 left	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 left	nsubj
24	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hanging	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 left	obj
26	alone	alone	ADV	_	24 left	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hoping	punct
28	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 hanging	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 become	mark
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 older	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 older	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 older	cop
33	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 become	nsubj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 become	nsubj
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 become	aux
36	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hoping	advcl
37	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 sensible	advmod
38	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 become	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 hanging	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	answer	all answer not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product
2	hang	past · progressive	all answer		the bridge of Dublin			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bridge=Location
3	leave	past	end	widow		then	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	hope	gerund	all answer not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is	past	widow				old property	tree rules
6	become	might	older				sensible property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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