The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 61

With a sore heart she granted permission, and so content was Owen to be once more with his old companions that three years instead of three months passed away like a dream.

Who acts: countess, three years · What happens: grant, be, pass away · To what, where: permission, Owen, old companions

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 (countess, three years), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 heart	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 heart	det
3	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heart	amod
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 granted	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 granted	nsubj
6	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 granted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 content	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 content	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 content	advmod
11	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 granted	obl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Owen	cop
13	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 content	vocative
14	to	to	PART	_	16 once	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 once	cop
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 content	advmod
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 once	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 companions	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 companions	nmod:poss
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 companions	amod
21	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 more	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 passed	obj
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 years	nummod
24	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 passed	nsubj
25	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	28 months	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 instead	fixed
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 months	nummod
28	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 years	nmod
29	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 companions	acl
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 passed	advmod
31	like	like	ADP	_	33 dream	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dream	det
33	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 passed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 granted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grant	past	countess	permission	with a sore heart; content obl	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent permission=Theme
2	is a	past		Owen		tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive			once property	tree rules
4	pass away	past	three years instead three months	Owen's old companions	like a dream; away 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 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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