The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 31

They had so much to say that they hardly knew where to begin, but they agreed in blaming themselves bitterly for the negligence which had caused all their trouble; and when she heard this the Fairy immediately appeared to them.

Who acts: Sylvain, negligence, Fairy · What happens: have, say, know, begin, agree, blame · To what, where: much, Sylvain, trouble, this · Speech: someone speaks here

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, negligence, Fairy), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	acl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 knew	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
9	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	10 knew	advmod
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 begin	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 begin	mark
13	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 knew	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 agreed	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 agreed	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 agreed	nsubj
17	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
18	in	in	SCONJ	_	19 blaming	mark
19	blaming	blame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 agreed	advcl
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 blaming	obj
21	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	19 blaming	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 negligence	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 negligence	det
24	negligence	negligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blaming	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 caused	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 caused	aux
27	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 negligence	acl:relcl
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 trouble	det:predet
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 trouble	nmod:poss
30	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 caused	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 heard	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 heard	cc
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 heard	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 heard	nsubj
35	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
36	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 heard	obj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Fairy	det
38	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 heard	obj
39	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	40 appeared	advmod
40	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 heard	advcl
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 appeared	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Sylvain	much			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	past	Sylvain			hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	begin	to-infinitive					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	agree speech: agree	past	Sylvain				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	blame	gerund	Sylvain not said here	Sylvain		for the negligence; bitterly property	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme for negligence=Attribute
7	cause	past · perfect	the negligence	Sylvain's trouble			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient
8	hear	past	Fairy	this			tree rules
9	appear	past	Fairy not said here		Sylvain	immediately property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	trouble		Sylvain				nom trouble «cognition 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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