The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 150

Now the three days’ service which were to be reckoned as a year were over, and the only thing that disturbed Stan was, how to get all those ducats back to his home!

Who acts: only thing, three days · What happens: reckon, be, disturb, service · To what, where: service, Stan

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (only thing, three days), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 service	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 service	nmod:poss
5	’	's	PART	_	4 days	case
6	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 reckoned	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 reckoned	aux
9	to	to	PART	_	11 reckoned	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 reckoned	aux:pass
11	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 service	acl:relcl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 over	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 over	obl:unmarked
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 over	cop
16	over	over	ADV	_	11 reckoned	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 get	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 get	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thing	det
20	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	nsubj:outer
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 disturbed	nsubj
23	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thing	acl:relcl
24	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 disturbed	obj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 get	cop
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 get	punct
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 get	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 get	mark
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 reckoned	conj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 ducats	det:predet
31	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 ducats	det
32	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 get	obj
33	back	back	ADV	_	29 get	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 home	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 home	nmod:poss
36	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 back	obl
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 service	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · passive		the three days's service			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Attribute
2	is	past			year	over property	tree rules
3	disturb	past	the only thing	Stan			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stan=Experiencer
4	is	past	the only thing			get property	tree rules
5	service		the three days				nom service «act transitive»: poss=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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