The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 9
He stayed with his father, and all went prosperously and well with them the whole day, until they came back to land in the evening.
Who acts: lad, rod · What happens: stay, go, come back · To what, where: land
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, rod), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 father | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stayed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 went | advmod |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stayed | conj |
| 10 | prosperously | prosperously | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 well | cc |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 prosperously | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 came | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stayed | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 land | case |
| 24 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 evening | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 evening | det |
| 27 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | lad | with lad's father | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with father=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | lad not said here | day | with rod; prosperously property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | come back | past | rod | land | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location |
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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