The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 121

So they departed, taking the dog with them, and when they got back to their cave the captain declared that it was his right to have the first trial.

Who acts: robbers, captain, cave · What happens: depart, take, get back, declare, be, have · To what, where: dog, cave, right, first trial · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers, captain, cave), 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	_	3 departed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 departed	nsubj
3	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 taking	punct
5	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 departed	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taking	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 got	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 got	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 got	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 got	nsubj
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 departed	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 got	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 cave	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cave	nmod:poss
18	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 captain	det
20	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 declared	nsubj
21	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cave	acl:relcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 right	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 right	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 right	cop
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 right	nmod:poss
26	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 declared	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 have	mark
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 right	acl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 trial	det
30	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 trial	amod
31	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 departed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	depart	past	robbers = robber				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	gerund	robbers = robber not said here		the dog	with robbers = robber	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination
3	get back	past	robbers = robber			to robbers's cave result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cave=Result
4	declare speech: other	past	the captain	robbers's cave not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Attribute
5	is a	past	cave	dog's right			tree rules
6	have	to-infinitive	the captain not said here	the first trial			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trial=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 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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