The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 1
When all these things were ready the boy bade farewell to the witch and set out.
Who acts: things, witch · What happens: be, set out · To what, where: boy bade
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, witch), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 ready | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 things | det:predet |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 things | det |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bade | det |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bade | compound |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ready | xcomp |
| 10 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 13 witch | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 witch | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 witch | det |
| 13 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bade | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 set | cc |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 witch | acl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 set | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all things | the boy bade | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | the witch not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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