The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 49

Unluckily he had a hasty temper, and did not stop to reason, and, instead of sending to the town, and discovering people who knew his daughter-in-law and could have told him how hard she had worked and how poor she had been, he believed all the brother’s lying words, and made the queen believe them too.

Who acts: face, people, daughter, queen · What happens: have, not stop, send, discover, know, tell · To what, where: hasty temper, town, people, daughter, face, words · 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 (face, people, daughter, queen), 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	Unluckily	unluckily	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 temper	det
5	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 temper	amod
6	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stop	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stop	cc
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 stop	advmod
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 reason	case
13	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stop	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sending	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sending	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sending	punct
17	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 sending	mark
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 instead	fixed
19	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 had	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 town	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 town	det
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sending	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 discovering	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 discovering	cc
25	discovering	discover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 sending	conj
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 discovering	obj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 knew	nsubj
28	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 people	acl:relcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 daughter	nmod:poss
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knew	obj
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 law	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 law	case
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 in	punct
34	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 daughter	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 told	cc
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 told	aux
37	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 told	aux
38	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 knew	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 told	iobj
40	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	41 hard	advmod
41	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 worked	advmod
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 worked	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 worked	aux
44	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 told	advcl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 poor	cc
46	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	47 poor	advmod
47	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 worked	conj
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 been	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 been	aux
50	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 told	ccomp
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 believed	punct
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 believed	nsubj
53	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 brother	det:predet
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 brother	det
56	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 ’s	nsubj
57	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 believed	ccomp
58	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 ’s	xcomp
59	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 lying	obj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 made	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 made	cc
62	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 queen	det
64	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 made	obj
65	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 made	xcomp
66	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 believe	obj
67	too	too	ADV	_	65 believe	advmod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	face	a hasty temper			unluckily property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Patient
2	not stop	past · do-support	face not said here				to reason	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	send	gerund	face not said here			the town		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to town=Destination
4	discover	gerund	face not said here	people				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic
5	know	past	people	face's daughter and law				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
6	tell speech: assert	could · perfect	people not said here		face			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	work	past · perfect	daughter				hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	be	past · perfect	daughter					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	believe	past	face					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
10	lie	gerund	face not said here	words				vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme
11	make	past	face not said here	the queen				tree rules
12	believe	infinitive	the queen not said here	people				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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