The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 9

His mother, poor woman, used to lead him about from one place to another just like a dog.

What happens: use, lead · To what, where: mother, Maurice, one place

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: 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 used	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 woman	punct
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 used	punct
7	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 lead	mark
9	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 used	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lead	obj
11	about	about	ADV	_	9 lead	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 place	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 place	nummod
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lead	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	20 dog	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 dog	det
17	just	just	ADV	_	20 dog	advmod
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 dog	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dog	det
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 place	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle · passive		Maurice's mother					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	lead	to-infinitive		Maurice		one place to another dog		about property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme from place=Destination

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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