The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 12

And he did not want to sell the house, because it had belonged to his family for generations; otherwise he could have divided the money equally amongst them.

Who acts: father, house · What happens: not want, sell, belong, divide · To what, where: house, father

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, house), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 want	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sell	mark
7	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 belonged	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 belonged	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 belonged	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 belonged	aux
14	belonged	belong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 want	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 family	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 family	nmod:poss
17	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 belonged	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 generations	case
19	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 belonged	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 divided	punct
21	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	25 divided	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 divided	nsubj:pass
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 divided	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 divided	aux
25	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 want	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 money	det
27	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 divided	obj
28	equally	equally	ADV	_	25 divided	advmod
29	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 divided	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	father				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here	the house			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
3	belong	past · perfect	house		for generations	to father's family	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	divide	could · perfect · passive		father	amongst generations = generation	equally, otherwise property	tree rules

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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