The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 78

‘Her husband left her two earldoms, but it is all that remains of her broad lands, for they have been torn from her by a young earl, because she would not marry him.’

Who acts: husband, earldom, young earl, countess · What happens: leave, be, tear, not marry · To what, where: countess, remains, lands, husband

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, earldom, young earl, countess), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
2	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 husband	nmod:poss
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 earldoms	nummod
7	earldoms	earldom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 remains	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 remains	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 remains	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 remains	cop
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 remains	det:predet
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 remains	det
14	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 left	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 lands	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lands	nmod:poss
17	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lands	amod
18	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 remains	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 torn	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 torn	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 torn	nsubj:pass
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 torn	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 torn	aux:pass
24	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 left	parataxis
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 torn	obl
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 earl	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 earl	det
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 earl	amod
30	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 torn	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 marry	punct
32	because	because	SCONJ	_	36 marry	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 marry	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 marry	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 marry	advmod
36	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 torn	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 marry	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past	countess's husband	countess		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme earldom=Attribute
2	is a	present	earldom	all remains	of countess's broad lands	tree rules
3	tear	present · perfect · passive	a young earl	lands = land	from countess	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient from she=Co-Patient
4	not marry	would	countess	husband		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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