The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 62

So they took him on their ship, and the youth said, as they started off again, ‘Good father, before we were two, and now we are three!’

Who acts: trees, youth, we · What happens: take, say, start off, be · To what, where: man, ship, two, three · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, youth, we), 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 took	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ship	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ship	nmod:poss
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 started	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 started	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 started	nsubj
16	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 started	compound:prt
18	again	again	ADV	_	16 started	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 father	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 father	punct
21	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 father	amod
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 two	punct
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 two	mark
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 two	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 two	cop
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 took	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 three	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 three	cc
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 three	advmod
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 three	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 three	cop
33	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 took	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	trees = tree		man	trees's ship		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	the youth					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	start off	past	trees = tree				again	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is a	past	we	two				tree rules
5	is a	present	we	three			now	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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