The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 3

The neighbours were very kind, and would have done anything they could to help their poor friends, but the old couple felt that since everything had changed they would rather go elsewhere, so one day they set off to bury themselves in the country, taking their daughter with them.

Who acts: neighbours, old couple · What happens: be, do, help, feel, change, go · To what, where: anything, poor friends, everything, neighbours, country, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbours, old couple), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbours	det
2	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kind	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 kind	advmod
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 done	cc
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 done	aux
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 kind	parataxis
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 done	obj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 help	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 help	aux
14	to	to	PART	_	15 help	mark
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 anything	acl:relcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 friends	nmod:poss
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 friends	amod
18	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 help	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 felt	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 couple	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 couple	amod
23	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 felt	nsubj
24	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 changed	mark
26	since	since	SCONJ	_	29 changed	mark
27	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	29 changed	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 changed	aux
29	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 felt	ccomp
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 go	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 go	aux
32	rather	rather	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 changed	ccomp
34	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 set	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	40 set	advmod
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 day	nummod
38	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 set	obl:unmarked
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 set	nsubj
40	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	conj
41	off	off	ADP	_	40 set	compound:prt
42	to	to	PART	_	43 bury	mark
43	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 set	xcomp
44	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 bury	obj
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 country	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 country	det
47	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bury	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 taking	punct
49	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 bury	advcl
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 daughter	nmod:poss
51	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 taking	obj
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 them	case
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 taking	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the neighbours					kind property	tree rules
2	do	would · perfect		anything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
3	help	could	neighbours = neighbour	anything not said here	neighbours's poor friends				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary
4	feel	past	the old couple						vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	change	past · perfect · passive		everything					tree rules
6	go	would	neighbours = neighbour					elsewhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	set off	past	neighbours = neighbour				day		tree rules
8	bury	to-infinitive	neighbours = neighbour not said here	neighbours = neighbour		the country			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in country=Destination
9	take	gerund	neighbours = neighbour not said here		neighbours's daughter			with neighbours = neighbour	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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