The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 36

After they had gone a long, long way they came to a little house, and when the girl looked into it she found it was quite empty, and she thought ‘perhaps we might stay and live here.’

Who acts: depths, girl, house, we · What happens: go, come, look, find, be, think · To what, where: long long way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (depths, girl, house, we), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 thought	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 way	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl:unmarked
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 way	acl:relcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 house	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 house	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 house	amod
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 found	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 looked	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 girl	det
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looked	nsubj
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 found	advcl
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looked	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 empty	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 empty	cop
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 empty	advmod
29	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 found	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thought	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 thought	cc
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thought	nsubj
33	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 stay	punct
35	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	38 stay	advmod
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 stay	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 stay	aux
38	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 thought	ccomp
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 live	cc
40	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 stay	conj
41	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 live	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 stay	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	38 stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	depths = depth	a long long way			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	depths = depth	a long long way not said here		to a little house	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	look	past	the girl			into house	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into it=Theme
4	find	past	girl				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	house			empty property	tree rules
6	think speech: other	past	girl				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	stay	might	we			perhaps property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	live	infinitive	we not said here		here		vn exist-47.1-1 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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