The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 74

One day they arrived tired and half-starved in a big city, and said to one another, “Let us stay here for a little and rest before we set forth again.”

Who acts: eyes, us, we · What happens: arrive, starve, say, let, stay, rest · To what, where: big city, one, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, us, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 arrived	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 starved	cc
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 starved	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 half	punct
9	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 arrived	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 city	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 city	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 city	amod
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 starved	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 said	obl
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 one	fixed
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Let	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 Let	punct
22	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 Let	obj
24	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 Let	xcomp
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 stay	advmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 little	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 little	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stay	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rest	cc
30	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 stay	conj
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	33 set	mark
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 set	nsubj
33	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 rest	advcl
34	forth	forth	ADV	_	33 set	advmod
35	again	again	ADV	_	33 set	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 Let	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	eyes = eye				day	tired property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	starve	participle	eyes = eye not said here			a big city			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	eyes = eye not said here		one				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic
4	let in a quote	infinitive		us					tree rules
5	stay in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			here		for a little	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	rest in a quote	present	us not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	set in a quote	present	we				again	forth property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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