The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 78

After that they all set out to the river, where they intended to drown the boy.

Who acts: Toueno · What happens: set out, intend, drown · To what, where: river, boy

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toueno), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 set	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 set	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 set	advmod
5	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 set	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 intended	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 intended	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 intended	nsubj
13	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 river	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 drown	mark
15	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 intended	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boy	det
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drown	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	set out	past	Toueno		the river	after that	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
2	intend	past	Toueno				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	drown not said to happen	to-infinitive	Toueno not said here	the boy			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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