The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 154

At last it was decided that Michael should be put to the test; that they would take him to the ball, and at the end of supper would give him the philtre which was to enchant him like the rest.

Who acts: sisters, philtre · What happens: decide, put, take, give, be · To what, where: secret, last, Michael, philtre, end

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, philtre), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 decided	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 decided	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 decided	aux:pass
5	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 put	mark
7	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 put	nsubj:pass
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 put	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 put	aux:pass
10	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 decided	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 test	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 test	det
13	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 take	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 take	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 decided	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 take	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 ball	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ball	det
22	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 give	cc
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 end	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 end	det
27	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 supper	case
29	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 end	nmod
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 give	aux
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 philtre	det
34	philtre	philtre	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 enchant	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 enchant	cop
37	to	to	PART	_	38 enchant	mark
38	enchant	enchant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 philtre	acl:relcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 enchant	obj
40	like	like	ADP	_	42 rest	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 rest	det
42	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 enchant	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 decided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	past · passive		secret		last			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic
2	put	should · passive		Michael				to the test	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
3	take	would	sisters = sister		Michael			to the ball	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
4	give	would	sisters = sister not said here	the philtre	Michael		at the end of supper		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient philtre=Theme at end=Asset
5	is	past	the philtre	the philtre not said here				like the rest; enchant 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 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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