The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 91

It used to bring the salt tears down his cheeks to see his poor children neglected and dirty, as they often were, and they’d be bad enough only for a kind neighbour that used to look in whenever she could spare time.

Who acts: story, salt, children, kind neighbour, wife · What happens: use, bring down, tear down, see, neglect, be · To what, where: cheeks, poor children · 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 (story, salt, children, kind neighbour), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 bring	mark
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 salt	det
6	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tears	nsubj
7	tears	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	ccomp
8	down	down	ADP	_	4 bring	compound:prt
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cheeks	nmod:poss
10	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bring	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bring	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 children	nmod:poss
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 children	amod
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 see	obj
16	neglected	neglect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 see	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dirty	cc
18	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 neglected	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 were	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 were	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 were	nsubj
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 were	advmod
23	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ’d	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ’d	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ’d	nsubj
27	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	conj
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 bad	cop
29	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ’d	xcomp
30	enough	enough	ADV	_	29 bad	advmod
31	only	only	ADV	_	35 neighbour	advmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 neighbour	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 neighbour	det
34	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 neighbour	amod
35	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ’d	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 used	nsubj
37	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 neighbour	acl:relcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 look	mark
39	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 used	xcomp
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 whenever	case
41	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 look	advmod
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 spare	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 spare	aux
44	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 whenever	advcl:relcl
45	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 spare	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	story				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bring down	to-infinitive	story not said here	salt's cheeks			tree rules
3	tear down	present	the salt				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	story not said here	salt's poor children			tree rules
5	neglect	participle					vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	be	past	children = child			often property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	have	past	children = child			for a kind neighbour	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	is	infinitive	children = child not said here			bad, enough property	tree rules
9	use	past	a kind neighbour				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	look	to-infinitive	a kind neighbour not said here			whenever property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
11	spare	could	wife		time		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: 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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