The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 18

So he put the knife in his pocket and went off to a part of the island which was not so bare as the rest, and had a small grove of trees.

Who acts: comrade, island · What happens: put, go off, not be, have · To what, where: knife, pocket, small grove

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comrade, island), 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 put	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 knife	det
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pocket	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pocket	nmod:poss
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 went	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 part	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 part	det
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 island	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 island	det
17	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 part	nmod
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 bare	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bare	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 bare	advmod
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 bare	advmod
22	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 island	acl:relcl
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 rest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rest	det
25	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bare	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 grove	det
30	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 grove	amod
31	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 trees	case
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 grove	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	comrade	the knife	comrade's pocket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knife=Theme in pocket=Destination
2	go off	past	comrade not said here			to a part of the island	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	not is	past	the island			as the rest; bare property	tree rules
4	have	past	comrade not said here	a small grove of trees			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grove=Patient

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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