The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 24

She had now devised a plan by which they could perhaps succeed in getting to see each other again, and spending the rest of their lives together.

Who acts: fountains · What happens: devise, succeed, get, see, spend · To what, where: girl, each, rest

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fountains), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 devised	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 devised	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 devised	advmod
4	devised	devise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plan	det
6	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 devised	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 succeed	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 succeed	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 succeed	aux
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	12 succeed	advmod
12	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 plan	acl:relcl
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 getting	mark
14	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 succeed	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 getting	xcomp
17	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	16 see	obj
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 each	fixed
19	again	again	ADV	_	16 see	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spending	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spending	cc
22	spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 getting	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rest	det
24	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spending	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 lives	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 lives	nmod:poss
27	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rest	nmod
28	together	together	ADV	_	22 spending	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 devised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	devise	past · perfect · passive		girl	now		tree rules
2	succeed	could	fountains = fountain			by a plan; perhaps property	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	gerund	fountains = fountain not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	see	to-infinitive	fountains = fountain not said here	each	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
5	spend	gerund	fountains = fountain not said here	the rest of fountains's lives		together property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset

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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