The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 58

Most people would have considered it a wretched place, and turned their backs on it as soon as they could, but this lady saw that by spending some money the houses could be made as splendid as they were originally intended to be, and she instantly resolved to get them for herself.

Who acts: Most people, lady · What happens: consider, turn, see, spend, make, intend · To what, where: dwelling, backs, money, people · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Most people, lady), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 considered	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 considered	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 considered	aux
5	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 considered	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 place	det
8	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 place	amod
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 considered	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turned	cc
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 considered	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 backs	nmod:poss
14	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 turned	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 turned	obl
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 soon	advmod
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 turned	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 could	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 could	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 soon	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 lady	det
25	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 turned	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 made	mark
28	by	by	SCONJ	_	29 spending	mark
29	spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 made	advcl
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 money	det
31	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spending	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 houses	det
33	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 spending	obj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 made	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 made	aux:pass
36	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 saw	ccomp
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 splendid	advmod
38	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 made	xcomp
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 intended	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 intended	nsubj:pass
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 intended	aux:pass
42	originally	originally	ADV	_	43 intended	advmod
43	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 made	advcl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 be	mark
45	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 intended	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 resolved	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 resolved	cc
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 resolved	nsubj
49	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	50 resolved	advmod
50	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 turned	conj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 get	mark
52	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 resolved	xcomp
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 get	obj
54	for	for	ADP	_	55 herself	case
55	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	52 get	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consider	would · perfect	Most people	dwelling			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
2	turn	past	Most people not said here	people's backs	dwelling	soon property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
3	see	past	this lady				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	spend	gerund		some money			tree rules
5	make	could · passive				splendid property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
6	intend	past · passive		people		originally property	tree rules
7	be not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	resolve	past	lady			instantly property	tree rules
9	get	to-infinitive	lady not said here	people		for lady	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme for herself=Source

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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