The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 13

And he went back to his own home and got all his possessions together, and, taking his wife and family, he set out resolved to go and live in that country where the people did not die, but where instead they heard a voice calling them, which they followed into a land from which they never returned.

Who acts: voice, people · What happens: go back, get, take, set out, resolve, go · To what, where: possessions, wife, country, voice, people, land · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, people), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 home	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 home	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 home	amod
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 possessions	det:predet
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 possessions	nmod:poss
13	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	obj
14	together	together	ADV	_	10 got	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taking	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 taking	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taking	punct
18	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taking	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 family	cc
22	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wife	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 set	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 set	nsubj
25	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taking	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 set	compound:prt
27	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 set	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 resolved	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 live	cc
31	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 go	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 country	case
33	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 country	det
34	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 live	obl
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 die	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 people	det
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 die	nsubj
38	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 die	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 die	advmod
40	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 country	acl:relcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 heard	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 heard	cc
43	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	44 instead	advmod
44	instead	instead	ADV	_	46 heard	advmod
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 heard	nsubj
46	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 voice	det
48	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 heard	obj
49	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 heard	xcomp
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 calling	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 followed	punct
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 followed	obj
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 followed	nsubj
54	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 heard	conj
55	into	into	ADP	_	57 land	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 land	det
57	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 followed	obl
58	from	from	ADP	_	59 which	case
59	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 returned	obl
60	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 returned	nsubj
61	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	62 returned	advmod
62	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 land	acl:relcl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go back	past	voice				to voice's own home result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result
2	get	past	voice not said here	voice's possessions			together property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer possession=Stimulus
3	take	gerund	voice not said here		voice's wife and family			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination
4	set out	past	voice					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	resolve	participle	voice not said here					tree rules
6	go	to-infinitive	voice not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	live	infinitive	voice not said here			that country		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
8	not die	past · do-support	the people					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
9	hear	past	people	a voice			instead property	tree rules
10	call	gerund	a voice not said here	people				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
11	follow	past	people			a land		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Theme into land=Trajectory
12	not return	past	people			a land		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location
13	possess		voice					nom possession «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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