The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 21

In answer, the poor man told, in a few words, how he had begged the houses from his brother, and produced the deed of gift which made him their owner.

Who acts: poor man, man, deed · What happens: tell, beg, produce, make · To what, where: answer, houses, deed, owner, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, man, deed), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 answer	case
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 words	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 words	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 words	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begged	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 begged	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 begged	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 begged	aux
17	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 words	appos
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 houses	det
19	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 begged	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 brother	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 brother	nmod:poss
22	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 houses	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 produced	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 produced	cc
25	produced	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 deed	det
27	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 produced	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 gift	case
29	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 deed	nmod
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 made	nsubj
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 deed	acl:relcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 made	obj
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 owner	nmod:poss
34	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the poor man			answer		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	past · perfect	man	the houses			from man's brother	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent house=Recipient
3	produce	past	the poor man not said here	the deed of gift				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Result
4	make	past	the deed of gift	house's owner	man			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary owner=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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