The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 72

Sometimes, indeed, he never came at all, and the next evening he would tell Tephany that he had been forced to go into the town on business, but though she never reproached him she was not deceived and saw plainly that he no longer cared for her as he used to do.

Who acts: Denis, Tephany · What happens: not come, tell, force, go, not reproach, not deceive · To what, where: all, Tephany, Denis, town · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Denis, Tephany), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 came	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sometimes	punct
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 came	advmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tell	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 evening	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 evening	amod
14	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obl:unmarked
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tell	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	aux
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	conj
18	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 forced	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 forced	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 forced	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 forced	aux:pass
23	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 tell	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 go	mark
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 forced	xcomp
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 town	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 town	det
28	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 business	case
30	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 reproached	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 reproached	cc
33	though	though	SCONJ	_	36 reproached	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 reproached	nsubj
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 reproached	advmod
36	reproached	reproach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 reproached	obj
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 deceived	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 deceived	aux:pass
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 deceived	advmod
41	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 reproached	parataxis
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 saw	cc
43	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 deceived	conj
44	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	43 saw	advmod
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 cared	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 cared	nsubj
47	no	no	ADV	_	48 longer	advmod
48	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	49 cared	advmod
49	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 saw	advcl
50	for	for	ADP	_	51 her	case
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 cared	obl
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	54 used	mark
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 used	nsubj
54	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 cared	advcl
55	to	to	PART	_	56 do	mark
56	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 used	xcomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	past	Denis			all		indeed, sometimes property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location
2	tell speech: assert	would	Denis		Tephany		evening		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tephany=Recipient clause=Topic
3	force	past · perfect · passive		Denis					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go	to-infinitive	Denis not said here			the town		on business	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location
5	not reproach	past	Tephany	Denis					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	not deceive	past · passive		Tephany					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	see	past						plainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	care	past	Denis					for Tephany; long property	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for she=Theme
9	use	past	Denis						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	do	to-infinitive	Denis not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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