The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 14

The whole party afterwards sat down to dinner, after which they all returned to their own hut.

Who acts: whole party, corner · What happens: sit down, return

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole party, corner), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 party	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 party	amod
3	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sat	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 dinner	case
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 returned	punct
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 returned	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 returned	nsubj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 they	det
14	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 hut	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hut	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hut	amod
18	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 returned	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the whole party					to dinner; afterwards property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	return	past	corner					to corner's own hut result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result

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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