The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 105

No sooner was the old man buried than Martin and Michael agreed that they would go into the world together to seek their fortunes, while Jack stayed at home with their mother.

Who acts: old man, man, Jack · What happens: be, bury, agree, go, seek, stay · To what, where: old man, world, fortunes, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man, Jack), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 man	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 man	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 agreed	nsubj
7	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 man	acl
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 Martin	case
9	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 buried	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Michael	cc
11	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Martin	conj
12	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 go	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 agreed	ccomp
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
20	together	together	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 seek	mark
22	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	advcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fortunes	nmod:poss
24	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 seek	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stayed	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 stayed	mark
27	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 stayed	nsubj
28	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 agreed	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 home	case
30	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stayed	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 mother	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mother	nmod:poss
33	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stayed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		no old man		soon property	tree rules
2	bury	participle		no old man not said here		than Martin and Michael	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	agree speech: agree	past	no old man				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	would	man		the world	together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location
5	seek	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's fortunes			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme
6	stay	past	Jack		home	with man's mother	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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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