The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 63

and that to their certain knowledge he had a curl of her hair in his possession.

Who acts: that, two · What happens: have, possess · To what, where: curl, possession

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (that, two), 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 had	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 knowledge	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 knowledge	nmod:poss
5	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knowledge	amod
6	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 that	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 curl	det
10	curl	curl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 hair	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hair	nmod:poss
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 curl	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 possession	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 possession	nmod:poss
16	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	that	a curl of Iliane's hair		two's possession			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curl=Patient
2	possess		two						nom possession «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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