The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 123

Very early on the third morning the two young men started on their journey, and on the fourth day they reached the giant’s cave before he was out of bed.

Who acts: two young men, friends, man · What happens: start, reach, be, journey · To what, where: journey, cave

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 (two young men, friends, man), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 early	advmod
2	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 started	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 morning	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 morning	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 morning	amod
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 started	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 men	det
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 men	nummod
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 men	amod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 started	nsubj
11	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 journey	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 journey	nmod:poss
14	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 started	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reached	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 reached	cc
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 day	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
19	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 day	amod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reached	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 reached	nsubj
22	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 started	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 giant	det
24	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cave	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 giant	case
26	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reached	obj
27	before	before	ADP	_	32 bed	case
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bed	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 bed	cop
30	out	out	ADP	_	32 bed	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 bed	case
32	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reached	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	the two young men		friends's journey	morning	early property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	reach	past	friends = friend	the giant's cave		day		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cave=Theme
3	is	past	man			before bed		tree rules
4	journey		friends = friend					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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