The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 38

In this way the years went on, but the crops were not so good as they had been, and the old man gave orders that some fine houses he was building in the city should be left unfinished, for it would take all the savings to complete them.

Who acts: years, crops, old man, man, it · What happens: go on, not be, be, give, build, leave · To what, where: way, orders, fine houses, city, savings

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 (years, crops, old man, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 years	det
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 good	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 good	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crops	det
11	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 good	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 good	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 good	advmod
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 good	advmod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	parataxis
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 been	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 been	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 been	aux
19	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 good	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gave	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gave	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	nsubj
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	parataxis
26	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 gave	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 left	obj
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 houses	det
29	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 houses	amod
30	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 left	nsubj:pass
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 building	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 building	aux
33	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 houses	acl:relcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 city	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 city	det
36	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 building	obl
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 left	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 left	aux:pass
39	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 orders	acl:relcl
40	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 left	xcomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 take	punct
42	for	for	SCONJ	_	45 take	mark
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 take	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 take	aux
45	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 gave	conj
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 savings	det:predet
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 savings	det
48	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	45 take	obj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 complete	mark
50	complete	complete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 take	advcl
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 complete	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the years		this way		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location
2	not is	past	the crops			good property	tree rules
3	be	past · perfect	crops = crop				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	past	the old man	orders			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
5	build	past · progressive	man	some fine houses not said here	the city		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product
6	leave	should · passive		some fine houses		unfinished property	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme that=Attribute
7	take	would	it	all savings			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent savings=Theme
8	complete	to-infinitive		savings			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/19/38/