The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 29

So he went out from the feast, where they all sat drinking and making merry, and he walked alone beside the sea in the dusk of the evening, at the place where the great chest, with himself and his mother in it, had been cast ashore.

Who acts: boy, lady · What happens: go out, sit, drink, make, walk, cast · To what, where: feast, sea, great chest

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 (boy, lady), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 feast	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feast	det
7	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 sat	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 they	det
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
13	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 sat	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 making	cc
15	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 drinking	conj
16	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 making	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 walked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 walked	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 walked	nsubj
20	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
21	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 walked	advmod
22	beside	beside	ADP	_	24 sea	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sea	det
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walked	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 dusk	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dusk	det
27	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walked	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 evening	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 evening	det
30	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dusk	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 place	punct
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 place	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 place	det
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walked	obl
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	50 cast	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 chest	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 chest	amod
38	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 cast	nsubj:pass
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 himself	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 himself	case
41	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 chest	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 mother	cc
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 mother	nmod:poss
44	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 himself	conj
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 mother	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 chest	punct
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 cast	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 cast	aux:pass
50	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 place	acl:relcl
51	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	50 cast	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	boy		the feast		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	lady					tree rules
3	drink	gerund	lady not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	gerund	lady not said here				merry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	walk	past	boy		the sea	dusk	at the place; alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside sea=Trajectory
6	cast	past · perfect · passive		the great chest with boy			ashore property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

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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