The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 79
Then they set out again to finish their journey, and this time, as they knew the way, they were not long upon the road.
Who acts: Cockchafers · What happens: set out, finish, know, not be, journey · To what, where: journey, way
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cockchafers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 finish | mark |
| 7 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | advcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 journey | nmod:poss |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finish | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knew | cc |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knew | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 knew | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knew | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 long | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 long | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 long | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 long | advmod |
| 24 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 knew | advmod |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 road | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 road | det |
| 27 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 long | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Cockchafers = cockchafer | then; again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | finish | to-infinitive | Cockchafers = cockchafer not said here | Cockchafers's journey | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality journey=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Cockchafers = cockchafer | the way | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | not is | past | Cockchafers = cockchafer | upon the road; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | journey | Cockchafers = cockchafer | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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