The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 109

They therefore went down to the beach together, where he had to take his seat in the trough, along with the witch, who sailed away with him, over the sea, home to her dwelling.

Who acts: princes, brother, witch · What happens: go down, have, take, sail away · To what, where: seat, trough, sea

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, brother, witch), 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	3 went	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 beach	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beach	det
7	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	together	together	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 had	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 seat	nmod:poss
16	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 trough	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trough	det
19	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 witch	punct
21	along	along	ADP	_	24 witch	case
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 witch	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 witch	det
24	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sailed	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 sailed	nsubj
27	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 witch	acl:relcl
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 sailed	advmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sailed	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sea	punct
32	over	over	ADP	_	34 sea	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sea	det
34	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sailed	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 home	punct
36	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sea	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 dwelling	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 dwelling	nmod:poss
39	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sea	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go down	past	princes = prince			to the beach; down, therefore, together property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	have	past	brother				tree rules
3	take	to-infinitive	brother not said here	brother's seat	the trough	along the witch	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent seat=Value in trough=Location
4	sail away	past	the witch		the sea to woman's dwelling and home	with brother; away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=Trajectory

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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