The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 61

However, as soon as she reached home, she went straight to her husband, and told him that he must get back those houses from his brother, as they would exactly suit her, and she could easily make them into a palace as fine as the king’s.

Who acts: bride, husband, relations · What happens: reach, go, tell, get back, suit, make · To what, where: husband, houses, bride, relations, palace · 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 (bride, husband, relations), 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	However	however	ADV	_	7 reached	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 soon	advmod
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 reached	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 reached	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reached	nsubj
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 reached	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reached	conj
12	straight	straight	ADV	_	15 husband	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 husband	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 husband	nmod:poss
15	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reached	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 get	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 get	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	ccomp
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 get	advmod
25	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 houses	det
26	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 get	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 brother	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 brother	nmod:poss
29	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 suit	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 suit	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 suit	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 suit	aux
34	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	35 suit	advmod
35	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 get	conj
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 suit	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 make	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 make	cc
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 make	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 make	aux
41	easily	easily	ADV	_	42 make	advmod
42	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 reached	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 make	obj
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 palace	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 palace	det
46	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 make	obl
47	as	as	ADV	_	48 fine	advmod
48	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 palace	amod
49	as	as	ADP	_	51 king	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 king	det
51	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fine	obl
52	’s	's	PART	_	51 king	case
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	bride				home, however, soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	bride				to bride's husband	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to husband=Initial_Location
3	tell speech: assert	past	bride not said here		husband			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	get back	must	husband	that houses			from house's brother	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent house=Theme from brother=Source
5	suit	would	relations = relation	bride			exactly property	tree rules
6	make	could	bride	relations = relation		a palace	easily property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into palace=Product

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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