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The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 14

So, to pass the time, they decided to work for part of the day, to read for part of the day, and to enjoy themselves in the garden for part of the day.

Who acts: girls · What happens: pass, decide, work, read, enjoy · To what, where: girls, garden

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls), 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

advmodpunctmarkdetobjpunctnsubjconjmarkxcompcaseoblcasedetnmodpunctmarkconjcaseoblcasedetnmodpunctccmarkconjobjcasedetoblcaseoblcasedetnmodpunctrootSoADV,PUNCTtoPARTpassVERBtheDETtimeNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONdecidedVERBtoPARTworkVERBforADPpartNOUNofADPtheDETdayNOUN,PUNCTtoPARTreadVERBforADPpartNOUNofADPtheDETdayNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtoPARTenjoyVERBthemselvesPRONinADPtheDETgardenNOUNforADPpartNOUNofADPtheDETdayNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 passadvmod
2,,PUNCT_4 passpunct
3totoPART_4 passmark
4passpassVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 timedet
6timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing4 passobj
7,,PUNCT_9 decidedpunct
8theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs9 decidednsubj
9decideddecideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 passconj
10totoPART_11 workmark
11workworkVERBVerbForm=Inf9 decidedxcomp
12forforADP_13 partcase
13partpartNOUNNumber=Sing11 workobl
14ofofADP_16 daycase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 daydet
16daydayNOUNNumber=Sing13 partnmod
17,,PUNCT_19 readpunct
18totoPART_19 readmark
19readreadVERBVerbForm=Inf11 workconj
20forforADP_21 partcase
21partpartNOUNNumber=Sing19 readobl
22ofofADP_24 daycase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 daydet
24daydayNOUNNumber=Sing21 partnmod
25,,PUNCT_28 enjoypunct
26andandCCONJ_28 enjoycc
27totoPART_28 enjoymark
28enjoyenjoyVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin4 passconj
29themselvesthemselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes28 enjoyobj
30ininADP_32 gardencase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 gardendet
32gardengardenNOUNNumber=Sing28 enjoyobl
33forforADP_34 partcase
34partpartNOUNNumber=Sing28 enjoyobl
35ofofADP_37 daycase
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 daydet
37daydayNOUNNumber=Sing34 partnmod
38..PUNCT_4 passpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1passto-infinitivetimevn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2decidepastgirls = girlvn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3work not said to happento-infinitivegirls = girl not said herefor part of the dayvn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for part=Beneficiary
4readto-infinitivegirls = girl not said herefor part of the dayvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5enjoyto-infinitivegirls = girlthe gardenfor part of the dayvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus for part=Attribute

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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