The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 90
Then he went into the house and took away everything he could find, and sold the house to a friend of his who had long wished to have it, and his sister had no home to go to.
Who acts: brother, sister, home · What happens: go, take away, find, sell, wish, have · To what, where: house, everything, friend, blow, home
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 (brother, sister, home), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADP | _ | 8 took | compound:prt |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 everything | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sold | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sold | cc |
| 16 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sold | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 friend | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 friend | det |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sold | obl |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 wished | mark |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wished | nmod:poss |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 wished | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 wished | aux |
| 26 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 wished | advmod |
| 27 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 friend | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 have | mark |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wished | advcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 have | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 had | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 had | cc |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 sister | nmod:poss |
| 34 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 had | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 home | det |
| 37 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 had | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 go | mark |
| 39 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 had | xcomp |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 go | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | brother | the house | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | take away | past | brother not said here | everything | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | could | brother | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sell | past | brother not said here | the house | a friend | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Theme to friend=Recipient | |||
| 5 | wish | past · perfect · passive | a friend | long property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | to-infinitive | blow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 7 | have | past | brother's sister | no home | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | go | to-infinitive | no home not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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