The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 11

Still, at last they were over, and they went back the way she had come, and stopped at the three houses in order to take their little sons to their own home.

Who acts: spells, hill · What happens: be, go back, come, stop, take · To what, where: way, three houses, little sons, own home

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spells, hill), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	4 last	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 over	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 over	cop
7	over	over	ADV	_	4 last	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 last	parataxis
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 way	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stopped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stopped	cc
20	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 went	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 houses	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 houses	det
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 houses	nummod
24	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stopped	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 order	case
26	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 houses	nmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 take	mark
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 stopped	advcl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sons	nmod:poss
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sons	amod
31	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 take	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 home	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 home	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 home	amod
35	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	spells = spell			over property	tree rules
2	go back	past	spells = spell	the way			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	come	past · perfect	hill	the way not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4	stop	past	spells = spell not said here		the three houses in order		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location
5	take	to-infinitive	spells = spell not said here	spells's little sons	spells's own home		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme to home=Destination

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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