The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 124

After eight days the bridal pair said farewell to the king, and set sail for the youth’s own country, taking with them a whole shipload of treasures as the princess’s dowry.

Who acts: bridal pair · What happens: say, take · To what, where: set sail, king, whole shipload · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridal pair), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pair	det
5	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pair	amod
6	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 king	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sail	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sail	cc
14	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sail	amod
15	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	21 country	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 youth	det
18	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 country	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 youth	case
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 country	amod
21	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sail	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 taking	punct
23	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 taking	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 shipload	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 shipload	amod
28	shipload	shipload	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 taking	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 treasures	case
30	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 shipload	nmod
31	as	as	ADP	_	35 dowry	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 princess	det
33	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dowry	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 princess	case
35	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 taking	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the bridal pair	set sail for the youth's own country	the king		day	farewell property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient
2	take	gerund	the bridal pair not said here	a whole shipload of treasures				with doors = door; as the princess's dowry	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent shipload=Theme as dowry=Attribute

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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