The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 18

Then I told him my name and my father’s name, and why I came there, for indeed I had grown weary of gaining the mastery over all men at home, and sought if perchance there was one who could gain the mastery over me.

Who acts: I, one, my, father · What happens: tell, come, grow, gain, seek, be · To what, where: name, hunger, mastery, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one, my, father), 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 told	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 name	nmod:poss
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 name	cc
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 name	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 father	case
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 name	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 came	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 came	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grown	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 grown	mark
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	23 grown	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 grown	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 grown	aux
23	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 came	conj
24	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grown	xcomp
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 gaining	mark
26	gaining	gain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 weary	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mastery	det
28	mastery	mastery	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gaining	obj
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 men	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 men	det
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 mastery	nmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 home	case
33	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 men	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sought	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sought	cc
36	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 was	mark
38	perchance	perchance	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 was	nsubj
39	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	40 was	expl
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 one	cop
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 gain	nsubj
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 gain	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 gain	aux
44	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 sought	ccomp
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 mastery	det
46	mastery	mastery	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 gain	obj
47	over	over	ADP	_	48 me	case
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 gain	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I	my name and my father's name	hunger		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Topic
2	come	past	I			there			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past · perfect	I					indeed, weary property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	gain	gerund	I not said here	the mastery				over all men at home	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mastery=Theme
5	seek	past	I not said here						tree rules
6	is a	past		one					tree rules
7	gain	could	one	the mastery				over me	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mastery=Theme
8	name		my						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
9	name		my father						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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