The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 74

They flew about in their spare moments to the young ladies of their acquaintance, but the girls all declared they preferred one husband to two.

Who acts: Owl, girls · What happens: fly, declare, prefer, acquaint · To what, where: one husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owl, girls), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 moments	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 moments	nmod:poss
6	spare	spare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moments	amod
7	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flew	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 ladies	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ladies	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ladies	amod
11	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 moments	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 acquaintance	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 acquaintance	nmod:poss
14	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ladies	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 declared	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 declared	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 girls	det
18	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 declared	nsubj
19	all	all	ADV	_	20 declared	advmod
20	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 preferred	nsubj
22	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 declared	ccomp
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 husband	nummod
24	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 preferred	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 two	case
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 preferred	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Owl		moment	about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past	the girls			all property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	prefer	past	Owl	one husband		to two	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus
4	acquaint		Owl				nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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