The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 34

They had a quick voyage, and it was not long before Tiidu found himself again in the streets of the capital of Kungla, playing as he went along.

Who acts: sailors, voyage, Tiidu · What happens: have, not be, find, play, go along · To what, where: quick voyage, Tiidu, streets

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (sailors, voyage, Tiidu), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 voyage	det
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 voyage	amod
5	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 long	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 long	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 long	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 found	advmod
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 found	mark
13	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 found	obj
16	again	again	ADV	_	14 found	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 streets	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 streets	det
19	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 found	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 capital	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 capital	det
22	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 streets	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Kungla	case
24	Kungla	Kungla	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 capital	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 playing	punct
26	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 found	advcl
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 went	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 playing	ccomp
30	along	along	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	sailors = sailor	a quick voyage				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Patient
2	not is	past	voyage				long property	tree rules
3	find	past	Tiidu	Tiidu	the streets of the capital of Kungla	again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
4	play	gerund	Tiidu not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	go along	past	Tiidu				along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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