The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 46

So they went to a banyan tree, and stripped the bark to make strings for their slings, and next they repaired to the river bank to find stones.

Who acts: Pivi · What happens: go, strip, make, repair, find · To what, where: banyan tree, bark, strings, stones

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 (Pivi), 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	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
6	banyan	banyan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stripped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stripped	cc
10	stripped	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bark	det
12	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stripped	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stripped	advcl
15	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 make	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 slings	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 slings	nmod:poss
18	slings	sling	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 strings	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 repaired	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 repaired	cc
21	next	next	ADV	_	23 repaired	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 repaired	nsubj
23	repaired	repair	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 bank	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bank	det
26	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bank	compound
27	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 repaired	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 find	mark
29	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 repaired	advcl
30	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 find	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Pivi		a banyan tree		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
2	strip	past	Pivi not said here	the bark			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive	Pivi not said here	strings		for Pivi's slings	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent string=Product for sling=Asset
4	repair	past	Pivi			to the river bank; next property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	find	to-infinitive	Pivi not said here	stones			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic

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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