The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 80

This was better than being parted, of course, but not so good as having a little cottage of their own, where they could do as they liked, and soon they might have been heard bewailing to each other the hardness of their lots.

Who acts: This, kinds · What happens: be, part, not be, have, do, like · To what, where: little cottage, kinds, hardness

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 (This, kinds), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 better	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 parted	mark
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 parted	aux:pass
6	parted	part	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 better	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 of	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	6 parted	obl
9	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 of	fixed
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 good	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 good	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 good	advmod
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 good	advmod
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 better	conj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 having	mark
16	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 good	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cottage	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cottage	amod
19	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 having	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 own	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 own	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cottage	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 do	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 own	conj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 liked	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 liked	nsubj
30	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 do	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 heard	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 heard	cc
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 heard	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 heard	nsubj
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 heard	aux
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 heard	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 heard	aux:pass
38	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 good	parataxis
39	bewailing	bewail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 heard	xcomp
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 each	case
41	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	39 bewailing	obl
42	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 each	fixed
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 hardness	det
44	hardness	hardness	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bewailing	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 lots	case
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 lots	nmod:poss
47	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 hardness	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	This		good property	tree rules
2	part	gerund · passive	This not said here			vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»
3	not be		This not said here			tree rules
4	have	gerund	This not said here	a little cottage of kinds's own		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Patient
5	do	could	kinds = kind			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	like	past	kinds = kind			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	hear	might · perfect · passive		kinds = kind	soon property	tree rules
8	bewail	gerund	kinds = kind not said here	the hardness of kinds's lots	to each	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hardness=Stimulus

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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