The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 66

But at last they told him to keep always south, and with the land on his left and the sea on his right, till he reached the Island of the Fairies of the Garden.

Who acts: women, boy · What happens: tell, keep, reach · To what, where: boy, last, Island · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (women, boy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 south	advmod
10	south	south	ADV	_	8 keep	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 land	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 land	cc
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 land	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 land	det
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 left	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 left	nmod:poss
18	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 land	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sea	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sea	det
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 land	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 right	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 right	nmod:poss
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 reached	punct
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 reached	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 reached	nsubj
28	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Island	det
30	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 reached	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Fairies	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Fairies	det
33	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Plur	30 Island	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Garden	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Garden	det
36	Garden	Garden	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Fairies	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	women = woman		boy	last	with the land on boy's left and the sea; on boy's right	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	women = woman not said here				south property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	reach	past	boy	the Island of the Fairies of the Garden				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=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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