The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 49

For some years things went on as they were, and then the rich brother began to feel lonely, and thought to himself that he was getting older, and it was time for him to be married.

Who acts: things, rich brother, brother, elder · What happens: go on, be, begin, feel, think, get · To what, where: brother, time

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 (things, rich brother, brother, elder), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 years	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 years	det
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 were	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 were	nsubj
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 began	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 brother	det
14	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 brother	amod
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 feel	mark
18	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feel	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 thought	cc
22	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 began	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 himself	case
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 thought	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 getting	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 getting	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 getting	aux
28	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 thought	advcl
29	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 getting	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 married	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 time	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 time	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 time	cop
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 married	nsubj:pass
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 time	nmod
37	to	to	PART	_	39 married	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 married	aux:pass
39	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 went	parataxis
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	things			year		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	things = thing					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	the rich brother			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	feel	to-infinitive	the rich brother not said here				lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	think speech: other	participle	the rich brother not said here		brother			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get	past · progressive	brother				old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	past	elder	time			for brother	tree rules
8	marry	to-infinitive · passive		time				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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