The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 74
Never again did Tephany see the old woman, but she forgave Denis for selling her tears, and in time he grew to be a good husband, who did his own share of work.
Who acts: Tephany, man, good husband · What happens: see, forgive, sell, grow, be, do · To what, where: old woman, Denis, tears, good husband, own share, work
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 (Tephany, man, good husband), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 again | advmod |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | Tephany | Tephany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forgave | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 forgave | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 forgave | nsubj |
| 12 | forgave | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | conj |
| 13 | Denis | Denis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 forgave | obj |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 selling | mark |
| 15 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 forgave | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tears | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 selling | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grew | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grew | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 husband | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 husband | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 husband | det |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 husband | amod |
| 28 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grew | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 did | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 did | nsubj |
| 31 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 husband | acl:relcl |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 share | nmod:poss |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 share | amod |
| 34 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 did | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 work | case |
| 36 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 share | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | Tephany | the old woman | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | forgive | past | Tephany | Denis | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent denis=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sell | gerund | Tephany not said here | Tephany's tears | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | man | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | man not said here | a good husband | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | past | a good husband | man's own share of work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | share | man | work | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=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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