The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 37

So then they ate and drank, and were happy, and next morning he set off in the grey light of dawn.

Who acts: things, Halvor · What happens: eat, drink, be, set off, light · To what, where: grey light, dawn

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, Halvor), 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	_	4 ate	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 ate	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drank	cc
6	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 happy	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 happy	cc
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 happy	cop
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drank	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 set	cc
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 morning	amod
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obl:unmarked
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 set	nsubj
16	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 set	compound:prt
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 light	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 light	det
20	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 light	amod
21	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 dawn	case
23	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 light	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	things = thing			then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	past	things = thing not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past					happy property	tree rules
4	set off	past	Halvor		the grey light of dawn	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	light			dawn				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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