The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 5

Before starting their mother gave them each a loaf of bread and her blessing, and having taken a tender farewell of her and their father the three set forth on their travels.

Who acts: father, woman · What happens: start, give, take, set, travel, bless · To what, where: mother, loaf, sons, tender farewell

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, woman), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 starting	mark
2	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 gave	advcl
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 starting	obj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 loaf	det
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 loaf	det
9	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 bread	case
11	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loaf	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 blessing	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 blessing	nmod:poss
14	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loaf	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taken	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 taken	cc
17	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 taken	aux
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 gave	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 farewell	det
20	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 farewell	compound
21	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 farewell	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 set	cc
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 set	nsubj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 three	det
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 father	appos
29	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	conj
30	forth	forth	ADV	_	29 set	advmod
31	on	on	SCONJ	_	33 travels	mark
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 travels	nmod:poss
33	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 set	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	start	gerund		sons's mother			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality
2	give	past		each loaf of bread and woman's blessing	sons = son		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient loaf=Theme
3	take	gerund · perfect		a tender farewell of woman			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme
4	set	past	sons's father			forth property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	travel	present	sons's father not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bless		woman				nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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