The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 6

Then he came back and went with his master, who said, ‘We two ought to be able to travel through the wide world!’

Who acts: man, master · What happens: come back, go, say, be, travel · To what, where: wide world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (man, master), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 master	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 master	nmod:poss
9	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 master	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 able	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 able	punct
15	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 ought	nsubj
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 ought	nsubj
17	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 able	aux
18	to	to	PART	_	20 able	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 able	cop
20	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 travel	mark
22	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 able	xcomp
23	through	through	ADP	_	26 world	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
25	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 world	amod
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 travel	obl
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	man		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	man not said here			with man's master	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with master=Beneficiary
3	say speech: assert	past	man's master				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	ought	man not said here			able property	tree rules
5	travel	to-infinitive	man not said here	the wide world			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Trajectory

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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