The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 30

Perhaps it might have been better for Barbaik if she had left herself a little time to rest and to think about other things, for soon she grew to love money for its own sake, and only gave herself and Tephany the food and clothes they absolutely needed.

Who acts: two, Barbaik, food · What happens: be, leave, rest, think, grow, love · To what, where: Barbaik, money, food

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, Barbaik, food), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 better	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 better	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 better	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 better	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 better	cop
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 Barbaik	case
8	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 better	obl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 left	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 left	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 left	aux
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 better	advcl
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 left	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	obl:unmarked
17	to	to	PART	_	18 rest	mark
18	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 time	acl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 think	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 think	mark
21	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 rest	conj
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 things	case
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 things	amod
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 think	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grew	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 grew	mark
27	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 grew	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 grew	nsubj
29	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 think	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 love	mark
31	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 grew	xcomp
32	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 love	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	36 sake	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 sake	nmod:poss
35	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sake	amod
36	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 love	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 gave	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 gave	cc
39	only	only	ADV	_	40 gave	advmod
40	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 grew	conj
41	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 gave	iobj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 Tephany	cc
43	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 herself	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 food	det
45	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 gave	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 clothes	cc
47	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	45 food	conj
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 needed	nsubj
49	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	50 needed	advmod
50	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 food	acl:relcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	might · perfect	two				for Barbaik; good, perhaps property	tree rules
2	leave a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Barbaik	Barbaik		time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
3	rest	to-infinitive	Barbaik not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Barbaik not said here				about other things	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic
5	grow	past	Barbaik				soon property	tree rules
6	love	to-infinitive	Barbaik not said here	money			for two's own sake	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus for sake=Attribute
7	give	past	Barbaik not said here	the food and clothes	Barbaik			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient food=Theme
8	need	past	food	the food and clothes not said here			absolutely property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

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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