The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 18

They took even longer to go back than they had to come, for they were tired and footsore with their journey.

Who acts: homewards · What happens: take, go back, have, come, be, journey

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 (homewards), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 took	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	advcl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 come	mark
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tired	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 tired	case
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tired	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tired	cop
17	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 come	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 footsore	cc
19	footsore	footsore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tired	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 journey	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 journey	nmod:poss
22	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tired	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	take	past	homewards = homeward	long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go back	to-infinitive	homewards = homeward not said here		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	have	past	homewards = homeward		tree rules
4	come	to-infinitive	homewards = homeward not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	homewards = homeward	with homewards's journey; tired property	tree rules
6	be		homewards = homeward not said here		tree rules
7	journey		homewards = homeward		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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