The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 85

Both prepared for the wooing a whole week, which was the longest time allowed them; but, after all, it was quite long enough, for they both had preparatory knowledge, and everyone knows how useful that is.

Who acts: best, sons, everyone, that · What happens: woo, be, have, know · To what, where: preparatory knowledge · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best, sons, everyone, that), 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	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 prepared	advmod
2	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	8 week	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 week	det
5	wooing	woo	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 week	nsubj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 week	amod
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prepared	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 allowed	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 allowed	obj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 allowed	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 allowed	obl:unmarked
15	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 week	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 allowed	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 all	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 all	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 but	punct
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 prepared	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 all	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 long	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 long	cop
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 long	advmod
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 all	amod
27	enough	enough	ADV	_	26 long	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 all	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 had	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 had	nsubj
31	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 all	advcl
33	preparatory	preparatory	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 knowledge	compound
34	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 knows	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 knows	cc
37	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	38 knows	nsubj
38	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 had	conj
39	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 useful	advmod
40	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 knows	ccomp
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 useful	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 useful	cop
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	woo	gerund					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past			time	allow property	tree rules
3	is	past	best = good			enough, long property	tree rules
4	have	past	sons = son	preparatory knowledge			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient
5	know	present	everyone				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present	that			useful property	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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