The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 104
At length it was settled between them that three days should be given to pleasant hospitality and that then should follow what had to be said and done.
Who acts: that · What happens: settle, give, follow, have, say, do · To what, where: urgency, length, three days, pleasant hospitality · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 settled | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 settled | aux:pass |
| 5 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 settled | obl |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 days | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 given | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 given | aux:pass |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 settled | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 hospitality | case |
| 15 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hospitality | amod |
| 16 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 follow | cc |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 follow | nsubj |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 follow | advmod |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 follow | aux |
| 21 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 settled | conj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 follow | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 said | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 said | aux:pass |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 had | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 done | cc |
| 28 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 said | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past · passive | urgency | length | between drums = drum | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 2 | give | should · passive | that three days | pleasant hospitality | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to hospitality=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | follow | should | that | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive · passive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» | ||||||
| 6 | do | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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