The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 26
She was as fond of her husband as ever, and said she was sure that he couldn’t help letting the children go; but still she was afraid beyond the world to have another child torn from her.
Who acts: lady, husband, children · What happens: be, say, not help, let, go, have · To what, where: child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, husband, children), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fond | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fond | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 fond | case |
| 4 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 husband | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fond | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 ever | case |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 husband | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fond | conj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sure | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 help | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 help | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 help | aux |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 help | advmod |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | conj |
| 21 | letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 help | csubj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 children | det |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 go | nsubj |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 letting | ccomp |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 afraid | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 afraid | cc |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 afraid | advmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 afraid | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 afraid | cop |
| 30 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fond | conj |
| 31 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 33 world | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 afraid | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 have | mark |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 afraid | ccomp |
| 36 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 child | det |
| 37 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 have | obj |
| 38 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 child | acl |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 torn | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | lady | of lady's husband; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | lady not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | lady | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not help | could | husband | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | let | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | go | present | the children | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past | lady | still | beyond the world; afraid property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | have | to-infinitive | lady not said here | another child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 9 | tear | participle | another child not said here | from lady | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from she=Trajectory |
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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