The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 64

Their father and mother were dead, and they had no brothers, so the eldest girl ruled over the rest, and they all did as she bade them.

Who acts: father, girl · What happens: be, have, rule, do, bade · To what, where: brothers, eldest girl, rest, chains

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 (father, girl), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mother	cc
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	conj
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 brothers	det
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 girl	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 girl	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 girl	det
16	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 girl	amod
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	parataxis
18	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 girl	acl
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 rest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rest	det
21	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ruled	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 did	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 did	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 did	nsubj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 they	det
26	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	parataxis
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 bade	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bade	nsubj
29	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 did	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bade	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	chains's father and mother			dead property	tree rules
2	have	past	father	no brothers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
3	rule	participle		the eldest girl not said here	the rest		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	do	past	father				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bade	past	girl	chains = chain			tree rules

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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