The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 99

‘A washerman once lived in the great forest on the other side of the town, and he had a donkey to keep him company and to carry him wherever he wanted to go.

Who acts: washerman, donkey · What happens: live, have, keep, carry, want, go · To what, where: great forest, donkey

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (washerman, donkey), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 washerman	det
3	washerman	washerman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 lived	advmod
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 forest	amod
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 side	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 side	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 side	amod
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forest	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 town	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 town	det
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 side	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 donkey	det
22	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 keep	mark
24	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 keep	obj
26	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keep	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 carry	cc
28	to	to	PART	_	29 carry	mark
29	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 keep	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 carry	obj
31	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	33 wanted	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wanted	nsubj
33	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 carry	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 go	mark
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wanted	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	a washerman		the great forest on the other side of the town	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
2	have	past	washerman	a donkey			tree rules
3	keep	to-infinitive	a donkey not said here	donkey			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme company=Attribute
4	carry	to-infinitive	a donkey not said here	donkey			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	want	past	washerman			wherever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	washerman not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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