The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 95

It took them a long time still to reach the Golden Isle, but at last they got there, and we may be quite sure they never wanted to leave it any more.

Who acts: It, Princesses, we · What happens: take, reach, get, be, not want, leave · To what, where: Princesses, Golden Isle, last, Isle

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Princesses, we), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
7	still	still	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 reach	mark
9	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Isle	det
11	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Isle	amod
12	Isle	Isle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 reach	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 got	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 got	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 got	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sure	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sure	cc
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 sure	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 sure	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 sure	cop
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 sure	advmod
26	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 got	conj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wanted	nsubj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 wanted	advmod
29	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sure	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 leave	mark
31	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wanted	xcomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 leave	obj
33	any	any	ADV	_	34 more	advmod
34	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 leave	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It	Princesses = princess		still; time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	reach	to-infinitive		the Golden Isle				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent isle=Theme
3	get	past	Princesses = princess		last; there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	may	we				sure property	tree rules
5	not want	past	Princesses = princess					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princesses = princess not said here	Isle				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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