The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 3

Sylvain and Jocosa for their parts were far from sharing this enmity, and indeed were never happy when apart.

Who acts: Sylvain · What happens: share, not be · To what, where: enmity

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvain), 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	Sylvain	Sylvain	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sharing	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Jocosa	cc
3	Jocosa	Jocosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sylvain	conj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 parts	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 parts	nmod:poss
6	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sylvain	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sharing	aux
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 sharing	advmod
9	from	from	SCONJ	_	10 sharing	mark
10	sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 enmity	det
12	enmity	enmity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sharing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 happy	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 happy	cc
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	18 happy	advmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 happy	cop
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 happy	advmod
18	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sharing	conj
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 apart	advmod
20	apart	apart	ADV	_	18 happy	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sharing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	past · progressive	Sylvain for Sylvain's parts and Jocosa	this enmity				far property	tree rules
2	not is	past	Sylvain for Sylvain's parts and Jocosa not said here					apart, happy, indeed property	tree rules

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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