The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 73

A gown or a pair of shoes would have been something like a present for his poor mother; but he had said it, and he kept his word.

Who acts: gown, Maurice · What happens: be, say, keep, word · To what, where: something, gown, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gown, Maurice), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gown	det
2	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 something	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 pair	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pair	det
5	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gown	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 shoes	case
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pair	nmod
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 something	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 something	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 something	cop
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 present	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 present	det
14	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 something	nmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 mother	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mother	amod
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 present	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 said	aux
23	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 something	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 kept	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 kept	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 kept	nsubj
28	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 said	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 word	nmod:poss
30	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kept	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	would · perfect	a gown or a pair of shoes	something	like a present for Maurice's poor mother	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Maurice	gown		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	keep	past	Maurice	Maurice's word		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
4	word		Maurice			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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