The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 4

He went with them till they came to a place where three roads met, and there each of them took his own way, and the father bade them farewell and returned to his own home again.

Who acts: husbandman, sons, three roads, each, father · What happens: go, come, meet, take, bade, return · To what, where: place, own way, sons

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husbandman, sons, three roads, each), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	obl
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 place	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 place	det
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 met	advmod
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 roads	nummod
13	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 met	nsubj
14	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 place	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 took	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 each	expl
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 took	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 each	nmod
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 way	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 way	amod
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bade	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bade	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 father	det
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bade	nsubj
29	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bade	obj
31	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	29 bade	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 returned	cc
33	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 bade	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 home	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 home	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 home	amod
37	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 returned	obl
38	again	again	ADV	_	33 returned	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	husbandman				with sons = son	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary
2	come	past	sons = son		a place			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
3	meet	past	three roads					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	past	each	husbandman's own way				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
5	bade	past	the father	sons = son			farewell property	tree rules
6	return	past	the father not said here			again	to husbandman's own home result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result

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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