The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 20

After some discussion, it was agreed that the pearls should be divided by lot, and that each should have his chance in the order of his age: of course, if the oldest was successful the other two would be saved the trouble of trying.

Who acts: lot, each, the, Hereupon · What happens: agree, divide, have, be, save, try · To what, where: discussion, pearls, chance, order, other two, age

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lot, each, the, Hereupon), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 discussion	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 discussion	det
3	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 agreed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 discussion	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 agreed	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 agreed	aux:pass
7	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 divided	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pearls	det
10	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 divided	nsubj:pass
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 divided	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 divided	aux:pass
13	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 agreed	advcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 lot	case
15	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 divided	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 have	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 have	mark
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 have	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 agreed	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 chance	nmod:poss
23	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 order	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 order	det
26	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 age	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 age	nmod:poss
29	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 order	nmod
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 successful	punct
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	38 successful	mark
32	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 of	fixed
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 of	punct
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 successful	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 successful	nsubj
36	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 the	nmod
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 successful	cop
38	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 agreed	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 two	det
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 two	amod
41	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 saved	nsubj:pass
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 saved	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 saved	aux:pass
44	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 successful	advcl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 trouble	det
46	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 saved	obj
47	of	of	SCONJ	_	48 trying	mark
48	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 trouble	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past · passive		discussion		after some discussion		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic
2	divide	should · passive	lot	the pearls				vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	have	should	each	Hereupon's chance	the order of Hereupon's age			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the				successful property	tree rules
5	save	would · passive		the other two				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary trouble=Theme
6	try	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	chance		Hereupon					nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent
8	order			Hereupon's age				nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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