The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 4

Now the mother and daughter had plenty to do in keeping the house clean and looking after the garden, but the man would sit for hours together gazing straight in front of him, and thinking of the riches that once were his.

Who acts: mother, man, that · What happens: have, do, keep, look, sit, gaze · To what, where: plenty, house, couple

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 (mother, man, that), 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	6 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 daughter	cc
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	conj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 plenty	acl
10	in	in	SCONJ	_	11 keeping	mark
11	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 do	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keeping	obj
14	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 keeping	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 looking	cc
16	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 keeping	conj
17	after	after	ADP	_	19 garden	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 garden	det
19	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looking	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sit	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 sit	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sit	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 sit	aux
25	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 hours	case
27	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sit	obl
28	together	together	ADV	_	25 sit	advmod
29	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 sit	advcl
30	straight	straight	ADV	_	29 gazing	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 front	case
32	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gazing	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 front	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 thinking	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 thinking	cc
37	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 sit	advcl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 riches	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 riches	det
40	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 thinking	obl
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 his	nsubj
42	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	44 his	advmod
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 his	cop
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 riches	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the mother and daughter	plenty	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	the mother and daughter not said here	plenty not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	gerund	the mother and daughter not said here	the house		clean property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
4	look	gerund	the mother and daughter not said here		after the garden		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	sit	would	the man		hour	together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	gaze	gerund	the man not said here			in front of couple; straight property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=Theme
7	think speech: other	gerund	the man not said here			of the riches	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past	that	couple		once 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 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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