The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 73

At first the girl told him that so few were left that she could not spare any; but when she found that he belonged to her brother, she changed her mind, and went out to the tree and gathered the largest and the ripest that was there.

Who acts: girl, brother, largest · What happens: tell, leave, not spare, find, belong, change · To what, where: brother, few, any, mind · 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 (girl, brother, largest), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 told	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 left	mark
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 few	advmod
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 left	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	aux:pass
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	ccomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 spare	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spare	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 spare	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 spare	advmod
16	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 left	advcl
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 spare	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 changed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 changed	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 found	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 changed	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 belonged	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 belonged	nsubj
25	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 found	ccomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 brother	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 brother	nmod:poss
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 belonged	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 changed	nsubj
31	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mind	nmod:poss
33	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 changed	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 went	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 went	cc
36	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	parataxis
37	out	out	ADV	_	36 went	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 tree	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 tree	det
40	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 went	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 gathered	cc
42	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 went	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 there	det
44	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	50 there	nsubj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 ripest	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 ripest	det
47	ripest	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	44 largest	conj
48	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 there	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 there	cop
50	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 gathered	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the girl		brother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave	past · passive		few			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	not spare	could	Girl	any			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent any=Asset
4	find	past	Girl				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	belong	past	brother			to Girl's brother	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
6	change	past	Girl	Girl's mind			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
7	go out	past				to the tree; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	gather	past					vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	past	largest			there property	tree rules
10	mind		Girl				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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