The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 62

But her husband only told her that she might buy houses in some other part of the town, for she could not have those, as he had long since made a gift of them to his brother, who had lived there for many years past.

Who acts: husband, bride, brother · What happens: tell, buy, not have, have, make, live · To what, where: bride, houses, other part, those, gift, relations · 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 (husband, bride, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 husband	nmod:poss
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 told	advmod
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 buy	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 buy	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 buy	aux
10	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
11	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 buy	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 part	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 part	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 part	amod
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 buy	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 town	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 town	det
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 part	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 have	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 have	advmod
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 buy	parataxis
25	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 have	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 have	parataxis
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 made	advmod
31	since	since	ADV	_	32 made	advmod
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 had	ccomp
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 gift	det
34	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 gift	nmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 brother	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 brother	nmod:poss
39	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lived	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 lived	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 lived	aux
43	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 brother	acl:relcl
44	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 lived	advmod
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 years	case
46	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 years	amod
47	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 lived	obl
48	past	past	ADV	_	47 years	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	bride's husband		bride				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	buy not said to happen	might	bride	houses		some other part of the town			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
3	not have	could	bride	those					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
4	have	past	husband						tree rules
5	make	past	husband not said here	a gift of relations				to husband's brother; long, since property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gift=Product
6	live	past · perfect	husband's brother			there	year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	gift			relations = relation					nom gift «possession transitive»: of=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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