The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 36
So the poor man rode the mule home, and brought back to his family enough money to keep them in comfort to the end of their days.
Who acts: poor man · What happens: ride, bring back, keep · To what, where: mule, family enough money, sons, comfort
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 rode | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mule | det |
| 7 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obj |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 rode | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brought | cc |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 brought | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 money | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 money | nmod:poss |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 money | compound |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 money | amod |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 keep | mark |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 brought | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 keep | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 comfort | case |
| 22 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 days | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 days | nmod:poss |
| 28 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 end | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the poor man | the mule | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring back | past | the poor man not said here | man's family enough money | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to money=Destination | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | the poor man not said here | sons = son | comfort | to the end of sons's days | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in comfort=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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