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The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 54

The abbot hesitated a good deal, but he consulted all the other monks, and at last they decided that they ought not to stand in the way of Vassili’s good fortune.

Who acts: abbot, monks · What happens: hesitate, consult, decide, not stand · To what, where: good deal, other monks, last, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (abbot, monks), 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

detnsubjdetamodobjpunctccnsubjconjdet:predetdetamodobjpunctcccaseoblnsubjconjmarknsubjauxadvmodmarkccompcasedetoblcasenmod:posscaseamodnmodpunctrootTheDETabbotNOUNhesitatedVERBaDETgoodADJdealNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONconsultedVERBallDETtheDETotherADJmonksNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJatADPlastADJtheyPRONdecidedVERBthatSCONJtheyPRONoughtAUXnotPARTtoPARTstandVERBinADPtheDETwayNOUNofADPVassiliPROPN’sPARTgoodADJfortuneNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 abbotdet
2abbotabbotNOUNNumber=Sing3 hesitatednsubj
3hesitatedhesitateVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 dealdet
5goodgoodADJDegree=Pos6 dealamod
6dealdealNOUNNumber=Sing3 hesitatedobj
7,,PUNCT_10 consultedpunct
8butbutCCONJ_10 consultedcc
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 consultednsubj
10consultedconsultVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 hesitatedconj
11allallDETPronType=Tot14 monksdet:predet
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 monksdet
13otherotherADJDegree=Pos14 monksamod
14monksmonkNOUNNumber=Plur10 consultedobj
15,,PUNCT_20 decidedpunct
16andandCCONJ_20 decidedcc
17atatADP_18 lastcase
18lastlastADJDegree=Pos20 decidedobl
19theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs20 decidednsubj
20decideddecideVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 hesitatedconj
21thatthatSCONJ_26 standmark
22theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs26 standnsubj
23oughtoughtAUXVerbForm=Fin26 standaux
24notnotPARTPolarity=Neg26 standadvmod
25totoPART_26 standmark
26standstandVERBVerbForm=Inf20 decidedccomp
27ininADP_29 waycase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 waydet
29waywayNOUNNumber=Sing26 standobl
30ofofADP_34 fortunecase
31VassiliVassiliPROPNNumber=Sing34 fortunenmod:poss
32’s'sPART_31 Vassilicase
33goodgoodADJDegree=Pos34 fortuneamod
34fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing29 waynmod
35..PUNCT_3 hesitatedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hesitatepastthe abbota good dealtree rules
2consultpastabbotall other monksvn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monk=Theme
3decidepastmonks = monklastvn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4not stand not said to happenoughtmonks = monkthe way of Vassili's good fortunevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location

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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