The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 103
They were allowed to take their own time, and meanwhile the four oldest fairies were to attend to the affairs of the kingdom.
Who acts: Surcantine, four oldest fairies · What happens: allow, take, attend · To what, where: Surcantine
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Surcantine, four oldest fairies), 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 | 3 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 allowed | xcomp |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 time | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 attend | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 attend | cc |
| 11 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 18 attend | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fairies | det |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 fairies | nummod |
| 14 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 fairies | amod |
| 15 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 attend | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 attend | aux |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 attend | mark |
| 18 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 allowed | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 affairs | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 affairs | det |
| 21 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 attend | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 kingdom | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 kingdom | det |
| 24 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 affairs | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past · passive | Surcantine | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Surcantine not said here | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | attend | past | the four oldest fairies | to the affairs of the kingdom; meanwhile property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to affair=Theme |
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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