The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 99
We set out with our two sons but turned back long before we got there, and are now on our way home again.
Who acts: We · What happens: set out, turn back, get, be · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 set | compound:prt |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sons | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sons | nmod:poss |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sons | nummod |
| 7 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 set | obl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 turned | cc |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 turned | advmod |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 got | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | advcl |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 got | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 way | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 way | cc |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 way | cop |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 way | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 way | nmod:poss |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | parataxis |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 way | advmod |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 way | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | We | with our two sons | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn back | past | We not said here | long property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | past | we | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | present | our way | now; again | 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: «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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