The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 78

They christened each other and then went onwards.

Who acts: feathers · What happens: christen, go · To what, where: each

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feathers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 christened	nsubj
2	christened	christen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 christened	obj
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 each	fixed
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 went	advmod
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 christened	conj
8	onwards	onwards	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 christened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	christen	past	feathers = feather	each					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
2	go	past	feathers = feather not said here				then	onwards property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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