The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 42

If there had been only himself, he would have managed to get on somehow, but he could not bear to watch his children becoming weaker day by day, and swallowing his pride, at length he crossed the mountains to his old home where his brother was living.

Who acts: son, children, brother · What happens: be, manage, get, not bear, watch, become · To what, where: son, children, pride, mountains, old home, length

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, children, brother), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 been	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 been	expl
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 been	aux
4	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 managed	advcl
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 himself	advmod
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 been	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 been	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 managed	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 managed	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 managed	aux
11	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 managed	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 somehow	case
15	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	13 get	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bear	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 bear	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bear	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bear	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 bear	advmod
21	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 managed	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 watch	mark
23	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bear	xcomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 children	nmod:poss
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 watch	obj
26	becoming	become	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 children	acl
27	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 day	amod
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 becoming	obl:unmarked
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 day	case
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 becoming	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 swallowing	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 swallowing	cc
33	swallowing	swallow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 managed	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 pride	nmod:poss
35	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 swallowing	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 crossed	punct
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 length	case
38	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 crossed	obl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 crossed	nsubj
40	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 managed	parataxis
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 mountains	det
42	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 crossed	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	46 home	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 home	nmod:poss
45	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 home	amod
46	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 crossed	obl
47	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	51 living	advmod
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 brother	nmod:poss
49	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 living	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 living	aux
51	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 home	acl:relcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	son not said here	son		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	manage	would · perfect	son						vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get	to-infinitive	son not said here					somehow property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	not bear	could	son						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	watch	to-infinitive	son not said here	son's children					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
6	become	gerund	son's children not said here				day		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	swallow	gerund	son not said here	son's pride					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Patient
8	cross	past	son	the mountains	son's old home	length			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient to home=Recipient
9	live	past · progressive	son's brother						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	pride		son						nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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