The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 21

When the appointed time had come the three brothers met once more, and they sat down and discussed the best opportunity of showing off their skill.

Who acts: appointed time, three brothers, Brothers, best opportunity · What happens: appoint, come, meet, sit down, discuss, show off · To what, where: best opportunity, skill

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appointed time, three brothers, Brothers, best opportunity), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 come	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brothers	det
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 brothers	nummod
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 met	nsubj
10	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	ccomp
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 met	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	parataxis
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 discussed	cc
19	discussed	discuss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sat	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 opportunity	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 opportunity	amod
22	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 discussed	obj
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 showing	mark
24	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 opportunity	acl
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 showing	compound:prt
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 skill	nmod:poss
27	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 showing	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	appoint	participle			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the appointed time		tree rules
3	meet	past	the three brothers		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit down	past	Brothers = brother		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	discuss speech: other	past	Brothers = brother not said here	the best opportunity	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Topic
6	show off	gerund	the best opportunity not said here	Brothers's skill	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent skill=Recipient

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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