The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 85

Then our two friends began each to accuse the other, and both looked sorrowfully at the place where their treasure had fallen in.

Who acts: two friends, both, treasure, friends · What happens: begin, accuse, look, fall in, treasure · To what, where: each, other

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 (two friends, both, treasure, friends), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 began	advmod
2	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friends	nmod:poss
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 friends	nummod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 began	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 accuse	mark
8	accuse	accuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 accuse	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
13	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	14 looked	nsubj
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
15	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	14 looked	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 place	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 place	det
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looked	obl
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 fallen	advmod
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 treasure	nmod:poss
21	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fallen	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fallen	aux
23	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 place	acl:relcl
24	in	in	ADV	_	23 fallen	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	our two friends	each	then		tree rules
2	accuse	to-infinitive	our two friends not said here	the other			vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent other=Theme
3	look	past	both			at the place; sorrowfully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at place=Theme
4	fall in	past · perfect	friends's treasure				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	treasure		friends = friend				nom treasure «possession 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 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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