The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 11
Now the father loved his three sons equally, so that he could not make up his mind which of them should have the house after his death, because he did not wish to favour any one more than the others.
Who acts: father · What happens: love, not make up, have, not wish, favour, mind · To what, where: three sons, mind, one more
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 loved | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sons | nmod:poss |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sons | nummod |
| 7 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loved | obj |
| 8 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 4 loved | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 make | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 make | advmod |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 loved | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 make | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mind | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 have | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 have | obl |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 mind | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obj |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 death | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 death | nmod:poss |
| 28 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wish | punct |
| 30 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 34 wish | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wish | nsubj |
| 32 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 wish | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 wish | advmod |
| 34 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 favour | mark |
| 36 | favour | favour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 wish | xcomp |
| 37 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 more | det |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 more | nummod |
| 39 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 favour | obj |
| 40 | than | than | ADP | _ | 42 others | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 others | det |
| 42 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 more | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | the father | father's three sons | now | equally property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | not make up | could | father | father's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | have | should | father's mind | after father's death | of sons = son | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not wish | past · do-support | father | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | favour not said to happen | to-infinitive | father not said here | any one more | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mind | father | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | die | father | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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 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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