The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 82

But the captain declared that the first trial belonged to him, and after that the others might have their turn.

Who acts: captain, first trial, others · What happens: declare, belong, have · To what, where: captain, turn

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, first trial, others), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 declared	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 captain	det
3	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declared	nsubj
4	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 belonged	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trial	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 trial	amod
8	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 belonged	nsubj
9	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declared	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 belonged	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 that	fixed
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 have	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 others	det
17	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 declared	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 turn	nmod:poss
21	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	the captain			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	belong	past	the first trial		captain	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	have	might	the others	others's turn		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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