The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 16

So they joined company and went on their way together, and after a time they came to an old oak tree, which was hollow and had a crack in the middle of the trunk.

Who acts: echoes, old oak tree · What happens: join, go, come, be, have · To what, where: company, way, old oak tree, crack, middle

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (echoes, old oak tree), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 joined	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 joined	nsubj
3	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 joined	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 joined	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	together	together	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 time	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 joined	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	22 tree	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tree	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tree	amod
21	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	compound
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hollow	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 hollow	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hollow	cop
26	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tree	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 crack	det
30	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 middle	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 middle	det
33	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 trunk	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 trunk	det
36	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 middle	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 joined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	past	echoes = echo	company				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient
2	go	past	echoes = echo not said here		echoes's way		together property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
3	come	past	echoes = echo		a old oak tree	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
4	is	past	a old oak tree				hollow property	tree rules
5	have	past	echoes = echo not said here	a crack	the middle of the trunk			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crack=Patient

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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