The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 98

By this time it was nearly dark, and the father said they could travel no further that night, and must go to sleep where they were.

Who acts: hut, father · What happens: be, say, travel, go, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hut, father), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dark	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dark	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dark	cop
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 dark	advmod
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 father	det
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dark	conj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 travel	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 travel	aux
15	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
16	no	no	ADV	_	17 further	advmod
17	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 travel	advmod
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 night	det
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 travel	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 go	cc
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dark	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 sleep	mark
25	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	xcomp
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 were	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 were	nsubj
28	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sleep	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	hut	time	dark, nearly property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	travel	could	father	night	far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	must	hut not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sleep	to-infinitive	hut not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	be	past	father			vn exist-47.1 «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 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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