The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 84

‘It will soon be full now, and I shall have to buy a larger one,’ he said to himself, and so busy was he with the thought of his money, that he did not notice how bright his son’s face had grown, nor how he sometimes started when he was spoken to, as if his mind was far away.

Who acts: pile, I, father, face, mind · What happens: be, have, buy, say, not notice, grow · To what, where: larger one, father · 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 (pile, I, father, face), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 full	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 full	aux
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 full	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 said	ccomp
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 full	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 full	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 buy	mark
14	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 one	det
16	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 one	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buy	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 himself	case
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 said	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 busy	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 busy	cc
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 busy	advmod
27	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 thought	advcl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 thought	cop
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 thought	nsubj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 thought	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 thought	det
32	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	ccomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 money	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 money	nmod:poss
35	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thought	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 notice	punct
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 notice	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 notice	nsubj
39	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 notice	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 notice	advmod
41	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	parataxis
42	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 bright	advmod
43	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 grown	amod
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 son	nmod:poss
45	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 face	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 son	case
47	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 grown	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 grown	aux
49	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 notice	ccomp
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 started	punct
51	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	55 started	cc
52	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	55 started	advmod
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 started	nsubj
54	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	55 started	advmod
55	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	conj
56	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	59 spoken	advmod
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 spoken	nsubj
58	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 spoken	aux:pass
59	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 started	parataxis
60	to	to	ADP	_	59 spoken	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 away	punct
62	as	as	SCONJ	_	68 away	mark
63	if	if	SCONJ	_	68 away	mark
64	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 mind	nmod:poss
65	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 away	nsubj
66	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 away	cop
67	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	68 away	advmod
68	away	away	ADV	_	59 spoken	advmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	pile			now	full, soon property	tree rules
2	have	shall	I					tree rules
3	buy	to-infinitive	I not said here	a larger one				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	father		father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
5	is	past	father				with the thought; of father's money	tree rules
6	not notice	past · do-support	father					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	grow	past · perfect	father's son's face					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	start	past	father				sometimes property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9	speak speech: other	past · passive		father				tree rules
10	is a condition, not said to happen	past	father's mind				away, far property	tree rules
11	mind		father					nom mind «cognition 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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