The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 129

Well, all in good time she was minding her family and her business again; and I’ll go bail, after the fright she got, she spent more time on her knees, and avoided fairy men all the days of the week, and particularly on Sunday.

Who acts: wife, I · What happens: mind, go, get, spend, avoid · To what, where: family, bail, fright, knees, fairy men

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, I), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	20 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Well	conj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 all	nmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 minding	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 minding	aux
9	minding	mind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 time	acl:relcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 family	nmod:poss
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 minding	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 business	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 business	nmod:poss
14	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 family	conj
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 business	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 go	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
19	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	bail	bail	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fright	punct
23	after	after	ADP	_	25 fright	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fright	det
25	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	parataxis
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 got	nsubj
27	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fright	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 spent	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 spent	nsubj
30	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 go	parataxis
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 time	amod
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spent	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 knees	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 knees	nmod:poss
35	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 spent	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 avoided	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 avoided	cc
38	avoided	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 spent	conj
39	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 men	compound
40	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 avoided	obj
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 days	det:predet
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 days	det
43	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 avoided	obl:unmarked
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 week	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 week	det
46	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 days	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 Sunday	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 Sunday	cc
49	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	51 Sunday	advmod
50	on	on	ADP	_	51 Sunday	case
51	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mind	past · progressive	wife	wife's family and wife's business			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme
2	go	future	I	bail	sunday		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bail=Theme
3	get	past	wife	the fright not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fright=Stimulus
4	spend	past	wife		time	on wife's knees goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on knee=Goal
5	avoid	past	wife not said here	fairy men	day		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent man=Location

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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