The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 12

It was already beginning to be late in the day, and to church they must and would go, so everyone who was in the palace was in a state of distress.

Who acts: coach, brother · What happens: begin, be, go · To what, where: everyone, church, state

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coach, brother), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beginning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beginning	aux
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 beginning	advmod
4	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 late	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 late	cop
7	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beginning	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 late	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 go	cc
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 church	case
14	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 go	cc
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 late	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 everyone	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 everyone	advmod
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 beginning	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 state	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 state	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 palace	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 palace	det
27	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 state	obl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 state	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 state	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 state	det
31	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 everyone	acl:relcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 distress	case
33	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 state	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 beginning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past · progressive	coach	everyone				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	to-infinitive	coach not said here			day	late property	tree rules
3	go	would	brother		church			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
4	is	past			a state		in the palace; of distress	tree rules

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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