The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 8
This was the very day that they were all going to leave the islands, and sail back to the mainland for the winter.
Who acts: This, men · What happens: be, go, leave, sail back · To what, where: day, islands, mainland
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 day | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 day | advmod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 going | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 going | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 going | advmod |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 day | acl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 leave | mark |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 going | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 islands | det |
| 14 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 leave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sail | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sail | cc |
| 17 | sail | sail | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 day | parataxis |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 sail | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 mainland | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mainland | det |
| 21 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sail | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 winter | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 winter | det |
| 24 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sail | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | men = man | the day not said here | all property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | the islands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sail back | infinitive | the mainland | winter | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to mainland=Trajectory |
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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