The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 69

If one judge would not give her the houses another should, and so time after time the case was tried over again, till at last it came before the highest judge of all, in the city of Evora.

Who acts: one judge, case · What happens: not give, try over, come · To what, where: houses, lady, case, city

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 (one judge, case), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 give	mark
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 judge	nummod
3	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 houses	det
9	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obj
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 should	det
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 houses	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tried	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tried	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	21 tried	advmod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tried	obl:unmarked
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 time	case
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 time	nmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 case	det
19	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tried	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tried	aux:pass
21	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 give	conj
22	over	over	ADV	_	23 again	advmod
23	again	again	ADV	_	21 tried	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 last	punct
25	till	till	ADP	_	27 last	case
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 last	case
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tried	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 last	acl:relcl
30	before	before	ADP	_	33 judge	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 judge	det
32	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 judge	amod
33	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 all	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 judge	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 city	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 city	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 city	det
39	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 Evora	case
41	Evora	Evora	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 city	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	not give	would	one judge	the houses	lady			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient house=Theme
2	try over	past · passive		the case			again; time	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	come	past	case			the city of Evora	before the highest judge of all	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before judge=Location

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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