The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 55

When they had travelled for some time they had to cross the sea, and the brother sat down at the helm, and the mother and the two half-sisters went to the fore-part of the vessel, and they sailed a long, long way.

Who acts: stepmother, time, brother, mother · What happens: travell, have, cross, sit down, go, sail · To what, where: time, sea, helm, fore part, long long way

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, time, brother, mother), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 travelled	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 travelled	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 travelled	aux
4	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 travelled	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 time	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cross	mark
11	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cross	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brother	det
17	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 travelled	parataxis
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 sat	compound:prt
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 helm	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 helm	det
22	helm	helm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 went	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mother	det
26	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sisters	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sisters	det
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 sisters	nummod
30	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	32 sisters	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 half	punct
32	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 mother	conj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	38 part	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 part	det
36	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 part	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 fore	punct
38	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 vessel	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 vessel	det
41	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 part	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sailed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sailed	cc
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 sailed	nsubj
45	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	conj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 way	det
47	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 way	amod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 long	punct
49	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 way	amod
50	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sailed	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	travell	past · perfect	stepmother			time	tree rules
2	have	past	stepmother	some time not said here			tree rules
3	cross	to-infinitive	some time not said here	the sea			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient
4	sit down	past	the brother		the helm		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at helm=Location
5	go	past	the mother and the two half sisters		the fore part of the vessel		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to part=Initial_Location
6	sail	past	stepmother	a long long way			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory

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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