The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 73

The husbands grew pale and cold, for they had never dreamed of this, nor meant any harm, and after a while they understood that their efforts were of no use, and that once more the boy had tricked them.

Who acts: husbands, efforts · What happens: grow, not dream, mean, understand, be, trick · To what, where: harm, that

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husbands, efforts), 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	2 husbands	det
2	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cold	cc
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pale	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dreamed	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 dreamed	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dreamed	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dreamed	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 dreamed	advmod
12	dreamed	dream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 grew	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 this	case
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 dreamed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 meant	punct
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	17 meant	cc
17	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	parataxis
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 harm	det
19	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 meant	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 understood	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 understood	cc
22	after	after	ADP	_	24 while	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 while	det
24	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 understood	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 understood	nsubj
26	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 meant	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 use	mark
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 efforts	nmod:poss
29	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 use	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 use	cop
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 use	case
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 use	det
33	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 understood	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tricked	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 tricked	cc
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 tricked	nsubj:pass
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	42 tricked	advmod
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	42 tricked	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 boy	det
40	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 tricked	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 tricked	aux
42	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grew	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 tricked	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the husbands			pale property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not dream	past · perfect	husbands = husband			of this	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	mean	past		any harm			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Topic
4	understand	past	husbands = husband		while		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	husbands's efforts			of no use	tree rules
6	trick	past · perfect · passive		that		once property	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 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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