The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 36

No sooner had he started than the girl’s brother, who had wasted all the riches his wife had brought him in recklessness and folly, and was now very poor, chanced to come into the town, and as he passed he heard a man say, ‘Do you know that the king’s son has married a woman who has lost one of her hands?’

Who acts: baby, brother, man, you, woman · What happens: have, start, waste, bring, be, chance · To what, where: riches, recklessness, town, son, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby, brother, man, you), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 started	nsubj
5	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	10 brother	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brother	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 girl	case
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 started	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wasted	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 wasted	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wasted	aux
14	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 brother	acl:relcl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 riches	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 riches	det
17	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 brought	nsubj:pass
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 brought	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 brought	aux
21	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 wasted	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brought	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 recklessness	case
24	recklessness	recklessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 brought	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 folly	cc
26	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 recklessness	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 poor	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 poor	cc
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 poor	cop
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 poor	advmod
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 poor	advmod
32	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 chanced	punct
34	chanced	chance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 poor	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 come	mark
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 chanced	xcomp
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 town	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 town	det
39	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 come	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 passed	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 passed	cc
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 passed	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 passed	nsubj
44	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 heard	nsubj
46	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 passed	conj
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 man	det
48	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 say	nsubj
49	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 heard	ccomp
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 know	punct
51	‘	'	PUNCT	_	54 know	punct
52	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 know	aux
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 know	nsubj
54	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 say	ccomp
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	61 married	mark
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 king	det
57	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 son	nmod:poss
58	’s	's	PART	_	57 king	case
59	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 married	nsubj:pass
60	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 married	aux
61	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 know	ccomp
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 woman	det
63	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 married	obj
64	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	66 lost	nsubj
65	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	66 lost	aux
66	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	63 woman	acl:relcl
67	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	66 lost	obj
68	of	of	ADP	_	70 hands	case
69	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	70 hands	nmod:poss
70	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 one	nmod
71	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
72	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past					soon property	tree rules
2	start	past	baby				than the girl's brother	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	waste	past · perfect	the girl's brother					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	bring	past · perfect · passive		all riches	recklessness and folly			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination
5	is	past				now	poor property	tree rules
6	chance	participle						vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	come	to-infinitive			the town			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location
8	pass	past	baby					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	hear	past	baby					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	say speech: assert	infinitive	a man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	know	present · do-support	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
12	marry	present · perfect · passive		the king's son				tree rules
13	lose	present · perfect	a woman	one of girl's hands				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality

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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