The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 22

When their mother heard Tephany’s request to be given a bed the good wife’s heart softened, and she was just going to invite her inside, when the young men, whose heads were turned by the girl’s beauty, began to quarrel as to which should do most for her.

Who acts: mother, heart, beauty, Tephany · What happens: hear, give, soften, go, invite, turn · To what, where: request, bed, heart, young men, most

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, heart, beauty, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 given	advcl
5	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 request	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Tephany	case
7	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 given	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 given	aux:pass
10	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bed	det
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 given	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wife	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wife	amod
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heart	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 wife	case
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 softened	nsubj
18	softened	soften	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 given	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 going	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 going	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 going	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 going	aux
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 going	advmod
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 softened	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 invite	mark
26	invite	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 going	xcomp
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 invite	obj
28	inside	inside	ADV	_	26 invite	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 turned	punct
30	when	when	SCONJ	_	38 turned	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 men	det
32	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 men	amod
33	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 turned	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 heads	punct
35	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	36 heads	nmod:poss
36	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 men	conj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 turned	aux:pass
38	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 going	conj
39	by	by	ADP	_	43 beauty	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 girl	det
41	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 beauty	nmod:poss
42	’s	's	PART	_	41 girl	case
43	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 turned	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 began	punct
45	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 softened	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 quarrel	mark
47	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 began	xcomp
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 do	mark
49	to	to	ADP	_	48 as	fixed
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 do	nsubj
51	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 do	aux
52	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 quarrel	ccomp
53	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	52 do	obj
54	for	for	ADP	_	55 her	case
55	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 most	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	people's mother	Tephany's request			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer request=Stimulus
2	give	to-infinitive · passive		a bed			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: bed=Theme
3	soften	past	the good wife's heart				tree rules
4	go	past · progressive	heart				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	invite	to-infinitive	heart not said here		heart	inside property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	turn	past · passive	the girl's beauty	the young men and the young men and the young men's heads's heads			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme subject=Result
7	begin	past	the good wife's heart not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	quarrel	to-infinitive	the good wife's heart not said here				tree rules
9	do	should		most		for Tephany	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality
10	request		Tephany				nom request «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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