The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 47
They soon arrived at the inn where the two eldest brothers had stayed, forgetting their errand.
Who acts: side, two eldest brothers · What happens: arrive, stay, forget · To what, where: inn, errand
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (side, two eldest brothers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 inn | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 inn | det |
| 6 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 stayed | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brothers | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 brothers | nummod |
| 10 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 brothers | amod |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stayed | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stayed | aux |
| 13 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 inn | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forgetting | punct |
| 15 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 arrived | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 errand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forgetting | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | side | the inn | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stay | past · perfect | the two eldest brothers | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | forget | gerund | side not said here | side's errand | tree rules |
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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