The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 37
However, this he kept to himself, and made the best of things, working hard like his brother before him.
Who acts: this · What happens: keep, make, work · To what, where: brother, best things
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 (this), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 kept | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 kept | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 things | det |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 things | amod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 things | case |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 working | punct |
| 16 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 made | parataxis |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 working | advmod |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 brother | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 working | obl |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 working | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | this | brother | however property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | make | past | this not said here | the best things | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product | ||||
| 3 | work | gerund | before brother | like brother's brother; hard property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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