The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 109

They had much to tell each other as they rode along, and at last the younger man exclaimed, ‘O fool, to leave such a beautiful wife to go and fight a witch!

Who acts: spells, last · What happens: have, tell, ride along, exclaim, leave, go · To what, where: each, fool, beautiful wife, witch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spells, last), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 tell	obj
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 rode	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rode	nsubj
10	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	advcl
11	along	along	ADV	_	10 rode	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 exclaimed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 exclaimed	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 exclaimed	nsubj:outer
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 last	nsubj
19	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fool	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 fool	punct
22	O	o	INTJ	_	23 fool	discourse
23	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exclaimed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 leave	punct
25	to	to	PART	_	26 leave	mark
26	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 exclaimed	conj
27	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 wife	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 wife	det
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wife	amod
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leave	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 go	mark
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 leave	advcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fight	cc
34	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 go	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 witch	det
36	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fight	obj
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	spells = spell			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	spells = spell not said here	each		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient
3	ride along	past	spells = spell		along property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	exclaim speech: express	past	last	fool		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fool=Topic
5	leave	to-infinitive	last not said here	such beautiful wife		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
6	go	to-infinitive	last not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fight	infinitive	last not said here	a witch		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Co-Agent

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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