The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 74

But, one by one, his comrades dropped off at the places where they had first met him, and he was quite alone when he reached his native town and the gates of the palace.

Who acts: one, comrades, boy · What happens: drop off, meet, be · To what, where: places, boy

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, comrades, boy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 dropped	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 dropped	nsubj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 one	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 one	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dropped	punct
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 comrades	nmod:poss
8	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dropped	nsubj
9	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 dropped	compound:prt
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 places	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 places	det
13	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dropped	obl
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 met	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 met	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 met	aux
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 met	advmod
18	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 places	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 met	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 reached	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 reached	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 reached	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 reached	cop
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 alone	advmod
25	alone	alone	ADV	_	28 reached	advmod
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 reached	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 reached	nsubj
28	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dropped	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 town	nmod:poss
30	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 town	amod
31	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reached	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gates	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 gates	det
34	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 town	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 palace	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 palace	det
37	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gates	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop off	past	one by one		the places		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at place=Trajectory
2	meet	past · perfect	comrades = comrade	boy		first property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	is	past	boy			alone, reach property	tree rules

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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