The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 61

All the principal citizens had formed themselves into two parties, and it was not until after a prolonged squabble that they agreed that the person to whom the most singular thing happened should be Emir.

Who acts: principal citizens, city, citizens, singular thing, person · What happens: form, prolong, not be, agree, happen, be · To what, where: citizens, two parties, prolonged squabble, Emir

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 (principal citizens, city, citizens, singular thing), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 citizens	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 citizens	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 citizens	amod
4	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 formed	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 formed	aux
6	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 formed	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 parties	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 parties	nummod
10	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 formed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 squabble	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 squabble	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 squabble	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 squabble	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 squabble	advmod
16	until	until	ADP	_	20 squabble	case
17	after	after	ADP	_	20 squabble	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 squabble	det
19	prolonged	prolong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 squabble	amod
20	squabble	squabble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 formed	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 agreed	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 agreed	nsubj
23	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 squabble	acl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 Emir	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 person	det
26	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Emir	nsubj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 whom	case
28	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 person	nmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 thing	det
30	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	31 singular	advmod
31	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 thing	amod
32	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 happened	nsubj
33	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 whom	acl:relcl
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 Emir	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 Emir	cop
36	Emir	Emir	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 agreed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 formed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	form	past · perfect	all principal citizens	citizens = citizen	two parties		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
2	prolong	participle					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
3	not is	past	city			until a prolonged squabble	tree rules
4	agree speech: agree	past	citizens = citizen	a prolonged squabble not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent squabble=Topic
5	happen	past	the singular thing				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	should	the person to Emir	Emir			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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