The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 83

They were tired of living quietly at home, being mistaken for each other by everybody they saw, and determined to set off in different directions, to seek adventures.

Who acts: babies, everybody · What happens: be, live, mistake, see, set off, seek · To what, where: home, different directions, adventures

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (babies, everybody), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 living	mark
5	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tired	advcl
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 living	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 living	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mistaken	punct
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 mistaken	aux:pass
11	mistaken	mistake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tired	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 each	case
13	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	11 mistaken	obl
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 each	fixed
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 everybody	case
16	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 mistaken	obl:agent
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 everybody	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 determined	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 determined	cc
21	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tired	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 set	mark
23	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 determined	xcomp
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 set	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 directions	case
26	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 directions	amod
27	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 set	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 seek	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 seek	mark
30	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 set	conj
31	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 seek	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	babies = baby			tired property	tree rules
2	live	gerund	babies = baby not said here		home	quietly property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
3	mistake	gerund · passive	everybody			for each	tree rules
4	see	past	babies = baby				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	be		babies = baby not said here				tree rules
6	set off	to-infinitive	babies = baby not said here		different directions		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	seek	to-infinitive	babies = baby not said here	adventures			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme

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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