The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 16
They appointed a time when they were to return home, and then they all set out.
Who acts: sons · What happens: appoint, return, set out
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons), 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 | 2 appointed | nsubj |
| 2 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appointed | obj |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 return | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 return | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 return | aux |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 return | mark |
| 9 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 appointed | advcl |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 return | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 set | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 set | advmod |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appointed | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past | sons = son | time | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | return | past | sons = son | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set out | past | sons = son | then | all property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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