More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 86

With common consent he took possession of the cave and every one said, had it been twice as much, he would have deserved it.

Who acts: Tom, one · What happens: take, say, have, deserve, possess · To what, where: possession, cave · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, one), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 consent	case
2	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 consent	amod
3	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 cave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cave	det
9	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 possession	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	obj
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 had	aux
18	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 much	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 been	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 deserved	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 deserved	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 deserved	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 deserved	aux
25	deserved	deserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 took	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 deserved	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	Tom	possession of the cave	with common consent	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	every one			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have	participle	Tom not said here	cave		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	deserve	would · perfect	Tom	cave		tree rules
5	possess			the cave		nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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