The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 3
At the end of the month they set off for home, but as the journey was a long one they spent the first evening at an inn.
Who acts: feasting · What happens: set off, be, spend · To what, where: end, long one, inn
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feasting), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 month | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 month | det |
| 6 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 set | nsubj |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 one | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 one | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 journey | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 journey | det |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 one | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 one | amod |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | conj |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spent | nsubj |
| 22 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 evening | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 evening | amod |
| 25 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spent | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 inn | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 inn | det |
| 28 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spent | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | feasting | at the end of the month | for home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | feasting not said here | a long one | as the journey | tree rules | |||
| 3 | spend | past | feasting | a long one not said here | a inn | evening | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Asset |
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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