The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 22

Several days were spent in these interesting conversations, but at length Zayda’s mother began to think of the best means for placing the Prince on the throne, which was his by right.

Who acts: throne · What happens: spend, begin, think, mean, place, be · To what, where: Several days, interesting conversations, length, Prince, throne

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (throne), 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	Several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 days	amod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spent	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spent	aux:pass
4	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 means	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 conversations	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 conversations	det
7	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 conversations	amod
8	conversations	conversation	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spent	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 length	case
12	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 began	obl
13	Zayda	Zayda	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 mother	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Zayda	case
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 length	appos
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spent	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 think	mark
18	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 best	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 best	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 think	ccomp
22	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 placing	mark
24	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 means	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Prince	det
26	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 placing	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 throne	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 throne	det
29	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 placing	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 his	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 his	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 his	cop
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 throne	conj
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 right	case
35	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 placing	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spend	past · passive		Several days	this interesting conversations		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	begin	past			length		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	place	gerund		the Prince	the throne	by right	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme on throne=Destination
6	is a	past	the throne	Prince			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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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