The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 111
When this had been done the boy and his bride set forth for home, and landed at the harbor of his native land.
Who acts: bride · What happens: do, set, land · To what, where: this, harbor
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 done | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bride | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | conj |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 landed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 landed | cc |
| 17 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 harbor | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 harbor | det |
| 20 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 landed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 land | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 land | nmod:poss |
| 23 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 land | amod |
| 24 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 harbor | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect · passive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | set | past | boy's bride | for home; forth property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for home=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | land | past | boy's bride not said here | the harbor of boy's native land | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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