The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 5

When I came back I settled in London, and, having taken part of a small house, I married Miss Mary Burton, daughter of Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier.

Who acts: I · What happens: come back, settle, have, take, marry · To what, where: London, taken part, Miss Mary

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 settled	advcl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 settled	nsubj
6	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 London	case
8	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 settled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 having	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 having	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 having	punct
12	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 settled	advcl
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 part	amod
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 having	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 house	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 house	det
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 house	amod
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 part	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 married	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 married	nsubj
21	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 settled	conj
22	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Mary	compound
23	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 married	obj
24	Burton	Burton	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Mary	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 daughter	punct
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Mary	appos
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Edmund	case
28	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Edmund	nmod:desc
29	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 daughter	nmod
30	Burton	Burton	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Edmund	flat
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hosier	punct
32	hosier	hosier	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Mary	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 settled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come back	past	I			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	settle	past	I		London	vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in london=Location
3	have	gerund	I not said here	taken part of a small house		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient
4	take	participle				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	marry	past	I	Miss Mary and hosier		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mary=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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