The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 72

The two adversaries were only too glad to be allowed to rest, and believed to the end of their days that, after all, the tortoise was stronger than either of them.

Who acts: two adversaries, tortoise · What happens: be, allow, rest, believe · To what, where: that

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two adversaries, tortoise), 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	3 adversaries	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 adversaries	nummod
3	adversaries	adversary	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 glad	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 glad	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 glad	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 glad	advmod
7	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 allowed	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 allowed	aux:pass
10	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 glad	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 rest	mark
12	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 allowed	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 believed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 believed	cc
15	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 glad	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 end	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 end	det
18	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 believed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 days	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 days	nmod:poss
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 end	nmod
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 believed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 all	punct
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 believed	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stronger	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tortoise	det
28	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stronger	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stronger	cop
30	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 glad	conj
31	than	than	ADP	_	32 either	case
32	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	30 stronger	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 either	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the two adversaries			glad property	tree rules
2	allow	to-infinitive · passive	the two adversaries not said here				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
3	rest not said to happen	to-infinitive	the two adversaries not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	believe	participle	the two adversaries not said here	that	to the end of adversaries's days		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
5	is	past	the tortoise			than either; strong property	tree rules

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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