The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 67
And so she lamented all day and all night, till the poor man was nearly worried to death; and at last he did what she wished, and summoned his brother in a court of law to give up the houses which, he said, had only been lent to him.
Who acts: wife, poor man, man · What happens: lament, be, do, wish, summon, give up · To what, where: last, brother, court, houses, man · 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 (wife, poor man, man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lamented | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 lamented | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lamented | nsubj |
| 4 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lamented | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 night | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 worried | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 worried | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worried | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 worried | cop |
| 16 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 17 worried | advmod |
| 17 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lamented | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worried | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 did | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 did | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 last | case |
| 23 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 did | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 did | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lamented | parataxis |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 did | obj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 wished | nsubj |
| 28 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 what | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 summoned | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 summoned | cc |
| 31 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 did | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 brother | nmod:poss |
| 33 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 summoned | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 court | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 court | det |
| 36 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 summoned | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 law | case |
| 38 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 court | nmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 give | mark |
| 40 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 summoned | advcl |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 give | compound:prt |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 houses | det |
| 43 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 give | obj |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 said | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 which | punct |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 said | nsubj |
| 47 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 houses | acl:relcl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 lent | punct |
| 49 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 lent | aux |
| 50 | only | only | ADV | _ | 52 lent | advmod |
| 51 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 52 lent | aux:pass |
| 52 | lent | lend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lamented | conj |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 54 him | case |
| 54 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 lent | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lamented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lament | past | wife | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the poor man | to death; nearly, worried property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past | man | last | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | wife | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | summon | past | man not said here | man's brother | a court of law | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient | |||
| 6 | give up | to-infinitive | man not said here | the houses | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Source | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | man | the houses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic | ||||
| 8 | lend | past · perfect · passive | wife not said here | man | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: to he=Recipient |
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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