The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 134

They went on till they came to a church, and the robbers said, ‘The sun is hot and the sack is heavy; let us leave it here and go in and rest.’

Who acts: robbers, sun, sack, us · What happens: go on, come, say, be, let, leave · To what, where: church, us, sack · 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, sun, sack, us), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 church	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 church	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 robbers	det
13	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hot	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 hot	punct
17	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hot	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 hot	cop
20	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 heavy	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sack	det
23	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heavy	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 heavy	cop
25	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hot	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 leave	obj
31	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 leave	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 go	cc
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 leave	conj
34	in	in	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 rest	cc
36	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 go	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	robbers = robber				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	robbers = robber		a church		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the robbers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	present	the sun			hot property	tree rules
5	is	present	the sack			heavy property	tree rules
6	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
7	leave	infinitive	us not said here	sack	here		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	go in	infinitive	us not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	rest	infinitive	us not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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