The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 140

They seated themselves in the trough, and rowed out on the lake which was beside the mound.

Who acts: trough, lake · What happens: seat, row out, be · To what, where: trough, lake, mound

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trough, lake), 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	2 seated	nsubj
2	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 seated	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 trough	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trough	det
6	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seated	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rowed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rowed	cc
9	rowed	row	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seated	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 rowed	compound:prt
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 lake	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rowed	obl
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 mound	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 mound	cop
16	beside	beside	ADP	_	18 mound	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mound	det
18	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lake	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	seat	past	trough	trough	the trough	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Value in trough=Location
2	row out	participle	trough not said here		the lake	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the lake		the mound	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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