The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 165
Everybody went on this expedition, and the two young men and the girl went with them.
Who acts: Everybody, two young men · What happens: go · To what, where: expedition
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, two young men), 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 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 expedition | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 expedition | det |
| 5 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 men | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 men | nummod |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 men | amod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 went | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 girl | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 men | conj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Everybody | this expedition | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on expedition=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the two young men and the girl | with girls = girl | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
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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