The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 82

At length the two elder sisters made their choice from out of the Sigurds and the Sigmunds, and it was decided that both weddings should take place at the same time.

Who acts: two elder sisters, weddings · What happens: make, decide, take · To what, where: choice, length, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two elder sisters, weddings), 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	7 made	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sisters	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sisters	nummod
5	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sisters	amod
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 choice	nmod:poss
9	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	14 Sigurds	case
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 Sigurds	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Sigurds	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sigurds	det
14	Sigurds	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 made	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Sigmunds	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Sigmunds	det
17	Sigmunds	sigmund	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 Sigurds	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 decided	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 decided	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 decided	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 decided	aux:pass
22	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 made	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 take	mark
24	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	25 weddings	det
25	weddings	wedding	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 take	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 decided	ccomp
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 time	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 time	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 time	amod
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the two elder sisters	sisters's choice	length		from the Sigurds and the Sigmunds	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent choice=Product from sigurd=Material
2	decide	past · passive		choice				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic
3	take	should	both weddings	place		time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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 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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