The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 79
When they had walked for some time they came to a crossway, and there they agreed to part, and each take his own road.
Who acts: feathers · What happens: walk, come, agree, take · To what, where: time, part, own road
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 walked | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | aux |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 take | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 crossway | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crossway | det |
| 12 | crossway | crossway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 agreed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 agreed | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 agreed | expl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 agreed | nsubj |
| 17 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 part | mark |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 agreed | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 take | cc |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 take | advmod |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 road | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 road | amod |
| 26 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · perfect | feathers = feather | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | feathers = feather | some time not said here | to a crossway | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | |||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | feathers = feather | part | there | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | take | present | King's own road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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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