The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 85
This was allowed, and those two contrived to be the anointers.
Who acts: two · What happens: allow, contrive, be · To what, where: This, anointers
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 contrived | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 contrived | cc |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 two | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 contrived | nsubj |
| 8 | contrived | contrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 allowed | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 anointers | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 anointers | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 anointers | det |
| 12 | anointers | anointer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 contrived | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past · passive | This | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | contrive | past | that two | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | that two not said here | the anointers | 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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