The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 93

The two eldest were allowed by their parents to do just as they liked, but the youngest was always obliged to give way to his brothers.

Who acts: parents, eldest, men · What happens: allow, do, like, oblige, give · To what, where: eldest, youngest, way, brothers

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, eldest, men), 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 two	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 eldest	nsubj
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 allowed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 allowed	aux:pass
5	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 parents	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 parents	nmod:poss
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 allowed	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 allowed	xcomp
11	just	just	ADV	_	14 liked	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 liked	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 liked	nsubj
14	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 do	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 obliged	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 obliged	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 youngest	det
18	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 obliged	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 obliged	aux:pass
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 obliged	advmod
21	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 allowed	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 obliged	xcomp
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 brothers	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 brothers	nmod:poss
27	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 give	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 allowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	allow	past · passive	men's parents	eldest			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	eldest not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	like	past	men = man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	oblige	past · passive		the youngest		always property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	give	to-infinitive		way	king's brothers		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Theme to brother=Recipient

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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