The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 96

The old man allowed himself to be talked over, and so they rowed out with the net.

Who acts: old man, casks · What happens: allow, talk over, row out · To what, where: man

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, casks), 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 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allowed	nsubj
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 allowed	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 talked	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 talked	aux:pass
8	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 allowed	advcl
9	over	over	ADV	_	8 talked	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rowed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rowed	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 rowed	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rowed	nsubj
14	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 rowed	compound:prt
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 net	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 net	det
18	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rowed	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 allowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	allow	past	the old man	man		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
2	talk over	to-infinitive · passive	the old man not said here		over property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»
3	row out	past	casks = cask		with the net	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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