The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 74

They are already half-way to church with him.’

Who acts: neighbours · What happens: be · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbours), 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	6 way	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
3	already	already	ADV	_	6 way	advmod
4	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 way	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 half	punct
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 church	mark
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 church	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	neighbours = neighbour	way				half property	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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