The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 96

As they walked home in the evening she said: “We shall be able to play better still to-morrow, for my father will have to go to the town, so we can stay at home.”

Who acts: men, Helga, We, father · What happens: walk, say, be, play, have, go · To what, where: town, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Helga, We, father), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 walked	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 evening	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 able	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 able	punct
12	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 able	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 able	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 able	cop
15	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 play	mark
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 able	xcomp
18	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 play	advmod
19	still	still	ADV	_	17 play	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 morrow	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 play	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 have	mark
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 play	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 go	mark
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 have	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 town	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 town	det
33	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 stay	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	38 stay	advmod
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 stay	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 stay	aux
38	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 play	conj
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 home	case
40	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stay	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	men = man		evening	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Helga				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	shall	We			able property	tree rules
4	play in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here		still	to morrow; well property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have in a quote	future	my father				tree rules
6	go in a quote	to-infinitive	my father not said here	the town			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
7	stay in a quote	can	we	home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

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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