The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 105

In a few days they left the kingdom and rode on to another, where they thought they would stop through the remainder of the winter, for Geirald liked to be comfortable, and did not care about travelling through ice and snow.

Who acts: people, Geirald · What happens: leave, ride on, think, stop, like, be · To what, where: kingdom, another, remainder, ice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Geirald), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 days	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 left	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 left	nsubj
6	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kingdom	det
8	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rode	cc
10	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 rode	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 another	case
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 rode	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 thought	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rode	conj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stop	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 stop	aux
20	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thought	ccomp
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 remainder	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 remainder	det
23	remainder	remainder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stop	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 winter	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 winter	det
26	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 remainder	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 liked	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 liked	mark
29	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 liked	nsubj
30	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stop	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	33 comfortable	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 comfortable	cop
33	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 liked	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 care	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 care	cc
36	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 care	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 care	advmod
38	care	care	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 rode	parataxis
39	about	about	SCONJ	_	40 travelling	mark
40	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 care	advcl
41	through	through	ADP	_	42 ice	case
42	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 travelling	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 snow	cc
44	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ice	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	people	the kingdom		day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
2	ride on	past	people not said here		another			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to another=Trajectory
3	think speech: other	past	people					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	stop	would	people		the remainder of the winter			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	like	past	Geirald					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
6	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Geirald not said here				comfortable property	tree rules
7	not care	past · do-support						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	travel	gerund			ice and snow			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through ice=Trajectory

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/12/105/