The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 128

The game the children loved the best was a match at archery, for the king had given them two bows exactly alike, and they would spend whole days in trying to see which could shoot the highest.

Who acts: game, king, children · What happens: love, be, give, spend, try, see · To what, where: best match, archery, children, highest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game, king, children), 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 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loved	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loved	nsubj
5	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 match	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 match	amod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 match	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 match	det
10	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loved	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 archery	case
12	archery	archery	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 match	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 given	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 given	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 given	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 given	aux
18	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 loved	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 given	obj
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 bows	nummod
21	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 given	obj
22	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	23 alike	advmod
23	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 given	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spend	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spend	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 spend	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 spend	aux
28	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 loved	conj
29	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 days	amod
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 spend	obj
31	in	in	SCONJ	_	32 trying	mark
32	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 spend	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 see	mark
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 trying	xcomp
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 shoot	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 shoot	aux
37	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 see	ccomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 highest	det
39	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 shoot	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	love	past	the game				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past		the best match	archery		tree rules
3	give	past · perfect	the king	children = child			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient bow=Theme
4	spend	would	children = child			day	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	try	gerund	children = child not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	children = child not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	shoot	could		the highest			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent high=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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