More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 111

They set off together, and when they came to cross-roads they halted and refreshed themselves a bit; and then they agreed to meet on a certain time, and not one was to go home before the other.

Who acts: brothers, one · What happens: set off, come, halt, refresh, agree, meet · To what, where: cross-roads, brothers

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, one), 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 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
4	together	together	ADV	_	2 set	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 halted	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 halted	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 halted	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 cross-roads	case
11	cross-roads	cross-road	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 halted	nsubj
13	halted	halt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 refreshed	cc
15	refreshed	refresh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 halted	conj
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 refreshed	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bit	det
18	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 refreshed	obl:unmarked
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 agreed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 agreed	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 agreed	advmod
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	2 set	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 meet	mark
25	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 agreed	xcomp
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 time	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 meet	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 go	cc
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 one	advmod
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 go	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 go	cop
35	to	to	PART	_	36 go	mark
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 set	conj
37	home	home	ADV	_	36 go	advmod
38	before	before	ADP	_	40 other	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 other	det
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 go	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	past	brothers = brother				together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	brothers = brother		cross-roads			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cross-road=Initial_Location
3	halt	past	brothers = brother					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	refresh	past	brothers = brother not said here	brothers = brother			a bit obl:unmarked	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
5	agree speech: agree	past	brothers = brother			then		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	meet not said to happen	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here			time		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	one			before the other	go, home 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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