The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 60

And when it was time for them to depart Arthur besought the countess that she would allow Owen to go with him to Britain for the space of three months.

Who acts: feasting, orders, Arthur, countess · What happens: be, depart, beseech, allow, go · To what, where: time, countess, Owen, Britain

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feasting, orders, Arthur, countess), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 when	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 time	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 when	nsubj
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 depart	mark
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 depart	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 depart	mark
9	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 time	acl
10	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 besought	nsubj
11	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 depart	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 countess	det
13	countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 besought	obj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 allow	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 allow	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 allow	aux
17	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 countess	acl
18	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 allow	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 allow	xcomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 go	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Britain	case
24	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 space	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 space	det
27	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 months	case
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 months	nummod
30	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 space	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 when	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	feasting	time				tree rules
2	depart	to-infinitive	orders = order					tree rules
3	beseech	past	Arthur	the countess				tree rules
4	allow	would	Arthur	the countess not said here	Owen			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer owen=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the countess not said here			Britain	with Owen; for the space of three months	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to britain=Initial_Location

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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