The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 84

So, friends, she let her man and her two children go before her one day to Mass, while she called to consult a fairy man about a disorder one of her cows had.

Who acts: friend, two children, cows · What happens: let, go, call, consult, have · To what, where: friends, fairy man, disorder one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (friend, two children, cows), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 let	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 friends	punct
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 let	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 friends	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	nsubj
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 man	nmod:poss
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 go	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 children	nmod:poss
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 children	nummod
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 go	nsubj
13	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 let	conj
14	before	before	ADP	_	17 day	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 day	nmod:poss
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 day	nummod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Mass	case
19	Mass	Mass	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 day	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 called	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	nsubj
23	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 let	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 consult	mark
25	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 called	xcomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 consult	obj
29	about	about	ADP	_	32 one	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 one	det
31	disorder	disorder	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 one	compound
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 consult	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 cows	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 cows	nmod:poss
35	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 one	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	friend	friends				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	go	present	friend's two children			day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	past	friend					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	consult	to-infinitive	friend not said here		a fairy man		about a disorder one	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Recipient about one=Topic
5	have	past	friend's cows	a disorder one not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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