The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 20

Still he would not leave the farm, and look for work elsewhere, as he might have done, for then he would never see Barbaik at all, and what was life worth to him without that?

Who acts: Jegu · What happens: not leave, look, do, not see, be · To what, where: farm, Barbaik, all, life

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jegu), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	5 leave	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leave	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 leave	advmod
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farm	det
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 look	cc
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 leave	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 work	case
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl
13	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	10 look	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 done	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 done	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 done	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 done	aux
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 look	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 then	case
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 see	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 see	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 see	aux
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 see	advmod
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 done	advcl
27	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 see	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 see	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 life	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 life	cc
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 life	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 life	cop
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obl
35	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 life	amod
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 worth	obl
38	without	without	ADP	_	39 that	case
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 worth	obl
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	would	Jegu	the farm		still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Theme
2	look	infinitive	Jegu not said here				for work; elsewhere property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for work=Theme
3	do	might · perfect	Jegu					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not see	would	Jegu	Barbaik	all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer barbaik=Stimulus
5	is a	past		life				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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