The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 30

It took them many days’ hard riding before they reached the country where the Man-eater lived, and then the horse told Ciccu to stop a group of old women who were coming chattering through the wood, and offer them each a shilling if they would collect a number of mosquitos and tie them up in a bag.

Who acts: It, many days, friends, Man eater, horse, old women · What happens: take, ', reach, live, tell, stop · To what, where: friends, hard riding, country, Ciccu, group, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, many days, friends, Man eater), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ’	nsubj
6	’	'	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 took	ccomp
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 riding	amod
8	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ’	obj
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 reached	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reached	nsubj
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ’	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 country	det
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obj
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 lived	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eater	det
16	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eater	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Man	punct
18	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	nsubj
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 country	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 told	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 horse	det
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
26	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 told	iobj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 stop	mark
28	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	xcomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 group	det
30	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stop	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 women	case
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 women	amod
33	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 group	nmod
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 coming	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 coming	aux
36	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 women	acl:relcl
37	chattering	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 coming	advcl
38	through	through	ADP	_	40 wood	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wood	det
40	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 chattering	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 offer	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 offer	cc
43	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	conj
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 offer	obj
45	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	47 shilling	det
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 shilling	det
47	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 offer	obj
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 collect	mark
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 collect	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 collect	aux
51	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 offer	advcl
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 number	det
53	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 collect	obj
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 mosquitos	case
55	mosquitos	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 number	nmod
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 tie	cc
57	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 collect	conj
58	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 tie	obj
59	up	up	ADP	_	57 tie	compound:prt
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 bag	case
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 bag	det
62	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 tie	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	It	friends = friend				vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme clause=Attribute
2	'	present	many days	hard riding				tree rules
3	reach	past	friends = friend	the country				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent country=Theme
4	live	past	the Man eater					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	the horse		Ciccu		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ciccu=Recipient clause=Topic
6	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	the horse not said here	a group of old women				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality group=Eventuality
7	come	past · progressive	old women					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	chatter	gerund	old women not said here			the wood		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Location
9	offer	infinitive	the horse not said here	friends = friend				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal shilling=Theme
10	collect a condition, not said to happen	would	friends = friend	a number of mosquitos				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme
11	tie up	infinitive	friends = friend not said here	friends = friend		a bag		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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