The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 34

In the Court there were two young fellows, one of eighteen years old, the other of nineteen, who were very fond of playing chess, and often sat long inside playing at it.

Who acts: two young fellows · What happens: be, play, sit · To what, where: Court, chess

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two young fellows), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 Court	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Court	det
3	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 were	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 were	expl
5	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 fellows	nummod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellows	amod
8	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 were	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 eighteen	case
12	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 one	nmod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 old	obl:unmarked
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellows	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 nineteen	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 nineteen	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 nineteen	case
19	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 fellows	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fond	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 fond	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fond	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 fond	advmod
24	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 nineteen	amod
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 playing	mark
26	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 fond	advcl
27	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 playing	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sat	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sat	cc
30	often	often	ADV	_	31 sat	advmod
31	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 were	conj
32	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 sat	advmod
33	inside	inside	ADP	_	34 playing	mark
34	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 sat	advcl
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 playing	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	two young fellows		the Court; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in court=Location
2	is	past				fond property	tree rules
3	play	gerund		chess			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=Theme
4	sit	past	two young fellows not said here			long, often property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	play	gerund	two young fellows not said here		chess		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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