The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 54

The years passed on, and by-and-by another council was held, and it was agreed that the king's sons were now of an age to take the power which rightly belonged to them.

Who acts: years, sons, power · What happens: pass on, hold, agree, be, take, belong · To what, where: council, power, sons

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (years, sons, power), 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 years	det
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 passed	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 held	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 held	cc
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 held	mark
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 by	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 held	cc
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 council	punct
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 council	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 council	det
13	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 held	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 held	aux:pass
15	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 passed	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 agreed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 agreed	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 agreed	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 agreed	aux:pass
20	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 passed	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 age	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sons	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 king	case
25	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 age	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 age	cop
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 age	advmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 age	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 age	det
30	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 agreed	xcomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 take	mark
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 age	acl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 power	det
34	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 take	obj
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 belonged	nsubj
36	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	37 belonged	advmod
37	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 power	acl:relcl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 belonged	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	participle	the years					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hold	past · passive		another council				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	agree speech: agree	past · passive		council				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic
4	is not said to happen	past	the king's sons			of a age; now		tree rules
5	take	to-infinitive		the power				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme
6	belong	past	the power		sons = son		rightly property	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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