The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 99

After much discussion, it appeared that the choice lay between two fairies, one called Surcantine and the other Paridamie; and their claims were so equal that it was impossible without injustice to prefer one to the other.

Who acts: it, choice, two fairies, claims, fairies · What happens: appear, lie, call, be, prefer, claim · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (it, choice, two fairies, claims), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 discussion	case
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 discussion	amod
3	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 discussion	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 lay	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 choice	det
9	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lay	nsubj
10	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	advcl
11	between	between	ADP	_	13 fairies	case
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 fairies	nummod
13	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lay	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 called	nsubj:pass
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 fairies	acl
17	Surcantine	Surcantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 called	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Paridamie	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Paridamie	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Paridamie	amod
21	Paridamie	Paridamie	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Surcantine	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 equal	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 equal	cc
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 claims	nmod:poss
25	claims	claim	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 equal	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 equal	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 equal	advmod
28	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 appeared	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 impossible	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 impossible	expl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 impossible	cop
32	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 equal	advcl
33	without	without	ADP	_	34 injustice	case
34	injustice	injustice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 prefer	mark
36	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 appeared	advcl
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 prefer	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 other	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 other	det
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 one	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	it		after much discussion	without injustice	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	past	the choice			between two fairies	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between fairy=Location
3	call	participle · passive	two fairies not said here	one			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	is	past	fairies's claims			equal property	tree rules
5	is	past	fairies's claims not said here			impossible property	tree rules
6	prefer	to-infinitive		one		to the other	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
7	claim		fairies = fairy				nom claim «communication 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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