The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 32

He had meant to have told his father all about it, and he was sure, quite sure, that if once the old man had seen his wife, he would have forgiven her poverty on account of her great beauty and goodness.

Who acts: man, old man · What happens: mean, tell, be, see, forgive, account · To what, where: father, wife, man, account, great beauty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, old man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 meant	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 meant	aux
3	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 told	mark
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	aux
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 meant	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	all	all	ADV	_	11 it	advmod
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sure	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sure	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sure	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sure	cop
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 meant	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sure	punct
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 sure	advmod
19	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sure	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seen	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 seen	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 seen	mark
23	once	once	SCONJ	_	28 seen	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seen	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seen	aux
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 meant	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wife	nmod:poss
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seen	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 forgiven	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 forgiven	nsubj:pass
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 forgiven	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 forgiven	aux
35	forgiven	forgive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 meant	conj
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 poverty	nmod:poss
37	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 forgiven	obj
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 account	case
39	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 forgiven	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 beauty	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 beauty	nmod:poss
42	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 beauty	amod
43	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 account	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 goodness	cc
45	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 beauty	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	past · perfect	man					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive · perfect	man not said here		man's father		about doubt	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent father=Recipient about it=Topic
3	is	past	man				sure property	tree rules
4	see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the old man	man's wife				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
5	forgive	would · perfect · passive		man		account of wife's great beauty and goodness		tree rules
6	account			wife's great beauty and goodness				nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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