The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 96

When the two brothers came home again at night they had much to tell of how the riding had gone off that day, and at last they told about the knight in the golden armor too.

Who acts: two brothers, apples, riding · What happens: come, have, tell, go off · To what, where: last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers, apples, riding), 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	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	advcl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	much	much	ADV	_	14 tell	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tell	mark
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 gone	mark
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 gone	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 riding	det
18	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gone	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	aux
20	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 tell	ccomp
21	off	off	ADP	_	23 day	case
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gone	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 told	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 last	case
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 told	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	nsubj
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	conj
30	about	about	ADP	_	32 knight	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 knight	det
32	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 armor	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 armor	det
35	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 armor	amod
36	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	obl
37	too	too	ADV	_	29 told	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the two brothers		again; night	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	apples = apple				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	apples = apple not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go off	past · perfect	the riding		day		tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past	apples = apple	last		about the knight; in the golden armor	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about knight=Topic

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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