The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 123

Of course, with all these charms they had lovers by the dozen.

Who acts: charms · What happens: have · To what, where: lovers

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 (charms), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	7 charms	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 charms	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 charms	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 charms	det:predet
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 charms	det
7	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 dozen	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dozen	det
13	dozen	dozen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	charms = charm	lovers				of all charms; by the dozen	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=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 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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