The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 40
Meanwhile, the son whom he had disinherited had grown poorer and poorer.
Who acts: son · What happens: disinherit, grow · To what, where: son
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 (son), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 10 grown | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grown | nsubj |
| 5 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 disinherited | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 disinherited | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 disinherited | aux |
| 8 | disinherited | disinherit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 son | acl:relcl |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grown | aux |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | poorer | poor | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 grown | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 poorer | cc |
| 13 | poorer | poor | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 poorer | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disinherit | past · perfect | son | the son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past · perfect | the son | meanwhile, poor property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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