The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 71

On the same day the two brothers set out on their journey to the city, the rich one on horseback, with plenty of food in his knapsack, the poor one on foot with nothing but a piece of bread and four onions to eat on the way.

Who acts: things · What happens: set out, eat, journey · To what, where: two brothers, journey, way

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brothers	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 brothers	nummod
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 day	nmod
8	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 brothers	acl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 set	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 journey	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 journey	nmod:poss
12	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 city	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 city	det
15	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 one	det
18	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	amod
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	appos
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 horseback	case
21	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 one	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 plenty	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 plenty	case
24	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 one	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 food	case
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 plenty	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 knapsack	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 knapsack	nmod:poss
29	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 plenty	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 one	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 one	det
32	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 one	amod
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 one	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 foot	case
35	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 one	nmod
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 nothing	case
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 one	nmod
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 piece	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 piece	det
40	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 nothing	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 bread	case
42	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 piece	nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 onions	cc
44	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 onions	nummod
45	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 nothing	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 eat	mark
47	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 onions	acl
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 way	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 way	det
50	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 eat	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set out	participle		the two brothers not said here	things's journey	to the city	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location
2	eat	to-infinitive			the way		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	journey		things = thing				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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