The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 70

And the three brothers put her head to the sea and sailed away, and in seven days the ship ran herself on to a beach of white sand, and they all went ashore.

Who acts: three brothers, ship, brothers · What happens: put, sail away, run on, go · To what, where: head, Christmastide

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three brothers, ship, brothers), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 put	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sailed	cc
12	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 sailed	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ran	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 days	case
17	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 days	nummod
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ran	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ship	det
20	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ran	nsubj
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sailed	conj
22	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 ran	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	21 ran	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 beach	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 beach	det
26	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ran	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 sand	case
28	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sand	amod
29	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 beach	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 went	nsubj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 went	advmod
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
35	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	34 went	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	the three brothers	Christmastide's head		to the sea	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
2	sail away	past	the three brothers not said here			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	run on	past	the ship	Christmastide	day	to a beach of white sand	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location herself=Theme
4	go	past	brothers = brother			ashore property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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