Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 3

So these two geniuses prepared themselves a full week for the wooing--this was the longest time that could be granted them; but it was enough, for they had had much preparatory information, and everybody knows how useful that is.

Who acts: two geniuses, this, wooing, geniuses, everybody, that · What happens: prepare, be, grant, have, know · To what, where: geniuses, longest time, much preparatory information · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two geniuses, this, wooing, geniuses), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 prepared	advmod
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 geniuses	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 geniuses	nummod
4	geniuses	genius	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 prepared	nsubj
5	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 prepared	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 week	det
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 week	amod
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prepared	obl:unmarked
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 wooing	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wooing	det
12	wooing	wooing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prepared	obl
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 time	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 time	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 time	det
17	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 time	amod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wooing	appos
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 granted	nsubj:pass
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 granted	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 granted	aux:pass
22	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 time	acl:relcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 granted	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 enough	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 enough	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 enough	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 enough	cop
28	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prepared	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 had	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 had	aux
33	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 enough	parataxis
34	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 information	amod
35	preparatory	preparatory	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 information	compound
36	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 knows	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 knows	cc
39	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	40 knows	nsubj
40	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 prepared	conj
41	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 useful	advmod
42	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 knows	ccomp
43	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 useful	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 useful	cop
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	prepare	past	this two geniuses	geniuses = genius	week	for the wooing	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent themselves=Product for wooing=Beneficiary
2	is a	past	this	the longest time			tree rules
3	grant	could · passive		the longest time			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal they=Theme
4	is	past	wooing			enough property	tree rules
5	have	past · perfect	geniuses = genius	much preparatory information			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=Patient
6	know	present	everybody				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	present	that			useful 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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