The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 82

Then he sold the farm, and removed with his wife to the town where their dear son and heir was living.

Who acts: man, dear son · What happens: sell, remove, live · To what, where: farm

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, dear son), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sold	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sold	nsubj
3	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farm	det
5	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 removed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 removed	cc
8	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sold	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 wife	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 removed	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 town	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 town	det
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wife	nmod
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 living	advmod
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 son	nmod:poss
17	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 son	amod
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 living	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 heir	cc
20	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 son	conj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 living	aux
22	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 town	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	man	the farm	then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Theme
2	remove	participle	man not said here			with man's wife to the town	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	live	past · progressive	dollars's dear son and heir				vn exist-47.1-1 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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