The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 49

So the next morning, the two rats, having spent hours in making themselves smart, set out to see the sun, leading their daughter between them.

Who acts: two rats · What happens: have, spend, make, set out, see, lead · To what, where: views, next morning, sun, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two rats), 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	So	so	ADV	_	18 set	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 set	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rats	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rats	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 rats	nummod
8	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 morning	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 having	punct
10	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 rats	acl
11	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 hours	amod
12	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 having	obj
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 making	mark
14	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 having	advcl
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 making	obj
16	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 making	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
18	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 set	compound:prt
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 set	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun	det
23	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 leading	punct
25	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 see	advcl
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 daughter	nmod:poss
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leading	obj
28	between	between	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 leading	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	the two rats not said here		hour		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	spend	participle					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	gerund	the two rats not said here	views = view		smart property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product
4	set out	participle · passive		the next morning and the two rats			tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive		the sun			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus
6	lead	gerund		views's daughter		between views = view	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme between they=Destination

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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