The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 52

The sons were rather disappointed at hearing this, and though there was plenty of meat to last for two or three days, they started off early in the morning down the same trail that they had followed before.

Who acts: sons · What happens: be, hear, last, start off, follow · To what, where: this, plenty, same trail

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sons	det
2	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 disappointed	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disappointed	cop
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 disappointed	advmod
5	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	SCONJ	_	7 hearing	mark
7	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 disappointed	advcl
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 hearing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 plenty	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 plenty	cc
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 was	mark
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 plenty	cop
14	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disappointed	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 meat	case
16	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plenty	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 last	mark
18	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 plenty	acl
19	for	for	ADP	_	23 days	case
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 days	nummod
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 three	cc
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 two	conj
23	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 last	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 started	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 started	nsubj
26	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disappointed	parataxis
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 started	compound:prt
28	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 started	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 morning	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 morning	det
31	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 started	obl
32	down	down	ADP	_	35 trail	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 trail	det
34	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 trail	amod
35	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 started	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 followed	nsubj:pass
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 followed	nsubj:pass
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 followed	aux
39	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 trail	acl:relcl
40	before	before	ADV	_	39 followed	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 disappointed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sons			disappointed property	tree rules
2	hear	gerund	the sons not said here	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	is a	past	the sons not said here	plenty		of meat	tree rules
4	last	to-infinitive	the sons not said here		day		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
5	start off	past	sons = son		morning	down the same trail; early property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	follow	past · perfect · passive		the same trail		before property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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