The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 65

‘Let it be in two months,’ answered Don Giovanni, for the time was nearly up that the devil had fixed, and he wanted a whole month to himself to wash off the dirt of the past three years.

Who acts: neck, devil · What happens: let, be, answer, fix, want, wash off · To what, where: neck, Don, devil, dirt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neck, devil), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answered	ccomp
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 months	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 months	nummod
7	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 be	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
12	Giovanni	Giovanni	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Don	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fixed	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 up	obl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 up	cop
18	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	19 up	advmod
19	up	up	ADP	_	24 fixed	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 fixed	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 devil	det
22	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fixed	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fixed	aux
24	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 answered	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wanted	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wanted	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wanted	nsubj
28	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 month	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 month	amod
31	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wanted	obl:unmarked
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 himself	case
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 wanted	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 wash	mark
35	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wanted	advcl
36	off	off	ADP	_	35 wash	compound:prt
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 dirt	det
38	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wash	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	43 years	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 years	det
41	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 years	amod
42	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 years	nummod
43	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 dirt	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	let	infinitive		neck			tree rules
2	be	infinitive	neck not said here			month	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past			Don		tree rules
4	fix	past · perfect · passive		the devil			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
5	want	past	devil		Don	month	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to himself=Attribute
6	wash off	to-infinitive	devil not said here	the dirt of the past three years			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=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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