The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 10

They determined, too, to make the attempt separately, one after the other, according to age, and they settled that a whole day was to be given to each adventurer in which to try his luck.

Who acts: musicians · What happens: determine, make, accord, settle, give, try · To what, where: attempt, age, adventurer, luck

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (musicians), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 determined	nsubj
2	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 too	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 determined	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 determined	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 attempt	det
9	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	separately	separately	ADV	_	7 make	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 make	conj
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 other	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 according	punct
17	according	accord	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 make	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 age	case
19	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 according	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 settled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 settled	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 settled	nsubj
23	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 determined	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 given	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 day	det
26	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 day	amod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 given	obl:unmarked
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 given	aux:pass
29	to	to	PART	_	31 given	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 given	aux:pass
31	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 settled	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 adventurer	case
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	34 adventurer	det
34	adventurer	adventurer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 given	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 which	case
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 try	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 try	mark
38	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 adventurer	acl:relcl
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 luck	nmod:poss
40	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 try	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	past	musicians = musician						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	make	to-infinitive	musicians = musician not said here	the attempt				separately property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product
3	accord	gerund	musicians = musician not said here				to age		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to age=Goal
4	settle	past	musicians = musician						vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give	past · passive	musicians = musician not said here		each adventurer		day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: to adventurer=Recipient
6	try	to-infinitive	musicians = musician not said here	treasure's luck		each adventurer			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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