The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 12

That evening they left the country for ever, and Jegu, without their help, grew poorer and poorer, and at last died of misery, while Barbaik was glad to find work in the market of Morlaix.

Who acts: toes, Jegu, Barbaik · What happens: leave, grow, die, be, find, help · To what, where: country, last, work, market, Morlaix

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toes, Jegu, Barbaik), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 left	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grew	cc
11	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 grew	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 help	punct
13	without	without	ADP	_	15 help	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 help	nmod:poss
15	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Jegu	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Jegu	punct
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
18	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 grew	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 poorer	cc
20	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 poorer	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 died	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 died	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 died	obl
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 misery	case
27	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 died	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 glad	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 glad	mark
30	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 glad	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 glad	cop
32	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 died	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 find	mark
34	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 glad	xcomp
35	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 find	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 market	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 market	det
38	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 find	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Morlaix	case
40	Morlaix	Morlaix	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 market	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	toes = toe	the country		evening		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent country=Theme for ever=Recipient
2	grow	past	Jegu				poor property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	past	toes = toe not said here		last		of misery	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of misery=Causer
4	is	past	Barbaik				glad property	tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive	Barbaik not said here	work	the market of Morlaix			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic
6	help		toes = toe					nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent
7	market			Morlaix				nom market «act transitive»: 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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