The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 23

‘The houses shall remain the property of the man to whom they were given, and to whom they belong.

Who acts: houses, house · What happens: remain, give, belong · To what, where: property, house

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 (houses, house), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 remain	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 houses	det
3	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 remain	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 remain	aux
5	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 property	det
7	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remain	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 man	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 property	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 whom	case
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 man	nmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 given	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 given	aux:pass
15	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 whom	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 whom	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 whom	cc
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 whom	case
19	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 remain	conj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 belong	nsubj
21	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 whom	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	remain	shall	the houses	the property of the man to the property of the man to the property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme property=Attribute
2	give	past · passive		house	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	belong	present	house		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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