The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 30

As soon as she had gone her way Esben wakened his brothers, and they hastily took their horses and rode off from the witch’s house, glad that they had escaped so well.

Who acts: Witch, brothers · What happens: go, waken, take, ride off, escape · To what, where: way, brothers, horses, house

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Witch, brothers), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 wakened	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 wakened	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obj
9	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 way	appos
10	wakened	waken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brothers	nmod:poss
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wakened	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 took	nsubj
16	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	17 took	advmod
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wakened	parataxis
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 horses	nmod:poss
19	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 took	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rode	cc
21	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 rode	compound:prt
23	from	from	ADP	_	27 house	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 witch	det
25	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 house	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 witch	case
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rode	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 glad	punct
29	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 house	amod
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 escaped	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 escaped	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 escaped	aux
33	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 glad	advcl
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 well	advmod
35	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 escaped	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 wakened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	Witch	Witch's way				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	waken	past		man's brothers			soon property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
3	take	past	brothers = brother		brothers's horses		hastily property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination
4	ride off	past	brothers = brother not said here			the witch's house		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from house=Trajectory
5	escape	past · perfect	brothers = brother				well property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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