The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 27

But he did not tell her about his son; indeed he hardly remembered that he had one till she heard it at last from an old woman whom she had gone to visit.

Who acts: man, wife · What happens: not tell, remember, have, hear, go, visit · To what, where: wife, one, briar, last, old woman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, wife), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 son	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 remembered	punct
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	14 remembered	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 remembered	nsubj
13	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	14 remembered	advmod
14	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 remembered	ccomp
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 had	obj
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 heard	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 had	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heard	obl
25	from	from	ADP	_	28 woman	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 woman	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 woman	amod
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obl
29	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 gone	obj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gone	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 gone	aux
32	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 woman	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 visit	mark
34	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 gone	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	man		wife		about man's son	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about son=Topic
2	remember	past	man				hardly, indeed property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	past	man	one				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	hear	past	wife	briar		last	from a old woman	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from woman=Source
5	go	past · perfect	wife	a old woman				tree rules
6	visit	to-infinitive	wife not said here					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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