The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 70

Her husband was heartily tired and ashamed of the whole affair, but his weakness in not putting a stop to it in the beginning had got him into this difficulty, and now he was forced to go on.

Who acts: husband, weakness · What happens: be, not put, get, force, go on · To what, where: stop, weakness, beginning, husband, difficulty

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, weakness), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tired	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
4	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	5 tired	advmod
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ashamed	cc
7	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tired	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 affair	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 affair	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 affair	amod
11	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ashamed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 got	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 got	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 weakness	nmod:poss
15	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 got	nsubj
16	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 putting	mark
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 putting	advmod
18	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 weakness	acl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stop	det
20	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 putting	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 putting	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 beginning	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 beginning	det
25	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 putting	obl
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 got	aux
27	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 tired	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 got	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 difficulty	case
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 difficulty	det
31	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 got	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 forced	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 forced	cc
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 forced	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 forced	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 forced	aux:pass
37	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tired	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 go	mark
39	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 forced	xcomp
40	on	on	ADV	_	39 go	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	judge's husband					heartily, tired property	tree rules
2	be		judge's husband not said here					of the whole affair	tree rules
3	not put	gerund	husband's weakness not said here	a stop	weakness		in the beginning		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stop=Theme in beginning=Destination
4	get	past · perfect	husband's weakness	husband		this difficulty			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	force	past · passive		husband			now		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go on	to-infinitive	husband not said here						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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