The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 24

Of course the neighbours had a great deal to say about the house which had been built so quickly--so very quickly--on the outskirts of the town, and invented all kinds of stories about the rich lady who lived in it.

Who acts: neighbours, rich lady · What happens: have, say, build, invent, live · To what, where: great deal, outskirts, house, kinds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbours, rich lady), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 neighbours	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 neighbours	det
4	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deal	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deal	amod
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 deal	acl
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 built	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 built	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 built	aux:pass
17	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 house	acl:relcl
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 quickly	advmod
19	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	17 built	advmod
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 quickly	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 quickly	advmod
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 quickly	advmod
23	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	10 say	advmod
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 outskirts	punct
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 outskirts	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 outskirts	det
27	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 town	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 town	det
30	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 outskirts	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 invented	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 invented	cc
33	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 kinds	det
35	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 invented	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 stories	case
37	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 kinds	nmod
38	about	about	ADP	_	41 lady	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 lady	det
40	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 lady	amod
41	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stories	nmod
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 lived	nsubj
43	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 lady	acl:relcl
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 lived	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the neighbours	a great deal			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the neighbours not said here	a great deal not said here	the outskirts of the town	about the house; quickly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	build	past · perfect · passive		the house		quickly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	invent	past	the neighbours not said here	all kinds of stories about the rich lady			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Result
5	live	past	the rich lady		house		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=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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