The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 76

The youth went with the carrier, and in the evening they reached an inn, where they were to spend the night.

Who acts: youth, Stuff · What happens: go, reach, spend · To what, where: inn

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, Stuff), 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	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 carrier	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 carrier	det
6	carrier	carrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reached	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 reached	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 evening	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 evening	det
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reached	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 reached	nsubj
13	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 inn	det
15	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reached	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spend	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 spend	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spend	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 spend	aux
20	to	to	PART	_	21 spend	mark
21	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 inn	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spend	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the youth			with the carrier	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with carrier=Beneficiary
2	reach	past	Stuff	a inn	evening		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent inn=Theme
3	spend	past	Stuff		night		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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