The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 49

And he consented, and that very day they set off in search of a sheltered spot on the banks of a stream, so that it would be easy to get water.

Who acts: folk, huts · What happens: consent, set off, shelter, be, get, search · To what, where: search, water, sheltered spot

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 (folk, huts), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 consented	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 consented	nsubj
3	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 set	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 set	cc
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 day	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 day	advmod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obl:unmarked
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 set	nsubj
10	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 consented	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 set	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 search	case
13	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 spot	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 spot	det
16	sheltered	shelter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 spot	amod
17	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 search	nmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 banks	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 banks	det
20	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 spot	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 stream	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 stream	det
23	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 banks	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 easy	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 easy	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 easy	expl
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 easy	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 easy	cop
30	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 set	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 get	mark
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 easy	csubj
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consent	past	folk					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	set off	past	huts = hut		search of a sheltered spot on the banks of a stream	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shelter	participle						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	would					easy property	tree rules
5	get	to-infinitive		water				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus
6	search			a sheltered spot on the banks of a stream				nom search «act transitive»: of=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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