The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 140

The first and the second nights it was the men of my own house that destroyed thy two fields, but on the third night my wife and her ladies came to me and begged me to change them also into the shape of mice, that they might take part in avenging Gwawl.

Who acts: second nights, own house, wife, mice · What happens: be, destroy, come, beg, change, take · To what, where: two fields, me, fields, shape, part, Gwawl

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second nights, own house, wife, mice), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 first	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 house	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nights	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 nights	amod
6	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 house	nsubj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 house	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 house	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 men	det
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 house	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 house	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 house	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 house	amod
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 first	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 destroyed	nsubj
16	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 house	acl:relcl
17	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 fields	nmod:poss
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 fields	nummod
19	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 destroyed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 came	cc
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 night	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 night	det
24	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 night	amod
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wife	nmod:poss
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 ladies	cc
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 ladies	nmod:poss
30	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 wife	conj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 destroyed	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 came	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 begged	cc
35	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 came	conj
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 begged	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 change	mark
38	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 begged	xcomp
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 change	obj
40	also	also	ADV	_	38 change	advmod
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 shape	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 shape	det
43	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 change	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 mice	case
45	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 shape	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 take	punct
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 take	mark
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 take	nsubj
49	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 take	aux
50	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 change	conj
51	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 take	obj
52	in	in	SCONJ	_	53 avenging	mark
53	avenging	avenge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 take	advcl
54	Gwawl	Gwawl	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 avenging	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 first	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the second nights				of my own house	tree rules
2	destroy	past	my own house	thy two fields				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient
3	come	past	my wife and wife's ladies		me	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
4	beg speech: request	past	my wife and wife's ladies not said here		me			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	change not said to happen	to-infinitive	my wife and wife's ladies not said here	fields = field			into the shape of mice result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into shape=Result
6	take	might	mice = mouse	part				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
7	avenge	gerund	mice = mouse not said here	Gwawl				tree rules

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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