The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 42

All day long they marched bravely on through the sunshine, till they had left their homes far behind them, and towards evening they found themselves in a large park.

Who acts: matters · What happens: march, leave, find · To what, where: sunshine, homes, matters, large park

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (matters), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 long	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 marched	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 marched	nsubj
5	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	7 on	advmod
7	on	on	ADV	_	5 marched	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 sunshine	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sunshine	det
10	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marched	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 left	punct
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 left	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 left	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 left	aux
15	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 marched	conj
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 homes	nmod:poss
17	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 left	obj
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 left	advmod
19	behind	behind	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 far	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 found	cc
23	towards	towards	ADP	_	24 evening	case
24	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 marched	conj
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 found	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 park	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 park	det
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 park	amod
31	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 marched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	past	matters = matter		the sunshine		long property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through sunshine=Trajectory
2	leave	past · perfect	matters = matter	matters's homes			far property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme
3	find	past	matters = matter	matters = matter	a large park	evening		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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