The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 6

She got used to find him absent by day, and they spent a happy twelvemonth together, and at last a beautiful little boy was born; and happy as she was before, she was twice as happy now, for she had her child to keep her company in the day when she couldn’t see her husband.

Who acts: doors, princess, child · What happens: use, find, spend, bear, be, have · To what, where: princess, husband, happy twelvemonth, beautiful little boy, last, child

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 (doors, princess, child), 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	3 used	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 used	aux:pass
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 find	mark
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	obj
7	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 find	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 day	case
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 absent	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spent	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spent	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 spent	nsubj
13	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 used	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 twelvemonth	det
15	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 twelvemonth	amod
16	twelvemonth	twelvemonth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spent	obj
17	together	together	ADV	_	13 spent	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 born	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 born	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 born	obl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 boy	det
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 boy	amod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 boy	amod
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 born	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 born	aux:pass
27	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 spent	advcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 happy	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 happy	cc
30	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 used	parataxis
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 before	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 before	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 before	cop
34	before	before	ADV	_	30 happy	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 happy	punct
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 happy	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 happy	cop
38	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	40 happy	advmod
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 happy	advmod
40	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 happy	conj
41	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 happy	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 had	punct
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 had	case
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 had	nsubj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 happy	parataxis
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 child	nmod:poss
47	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 had	obj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 keep	mark
49	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 had	xcomp
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 company	nmod:poss
51	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 keep	obj
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 day	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 day	det
54	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 keep	obl
55	when	when	SCONJ	_	59 see	mark
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 see	nsubj
57	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 see	aux
58	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 see	advmod
59	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 keep	advcl
60	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 husband	nmod:poss
61	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 see	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		princess				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	find	to-infinitive		husband			absent property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	spend	past	doors = door	a happy twelvemonth			together property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelvemonth=Asset
4	bear	past · passive		a beautiful little boy	last			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	is	past	princess				before property	tree rules
6	is	past	princess			now	happy, twice property	tree rules
7	have	past	princess	princess's child				tree rules
8	keep	to-infinitive	princess's child not said here	princess's company		day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme
9	not see	could	princess	princess's husband				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus

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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