The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 14

The travellers told all about it when they went home, and learned scholars wrote many books upon the town, the Palace, and the garden.

Who acts: travellers, scholars · What happens: tell, go, learn, write · To what, where: many books · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travellers, scholars), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 travellers	det
2	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 it	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 went	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 learned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 learned	cc
13	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
14	scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wrote	nsubj
15	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 learned	ccomp
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 books	amod
17	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wrote	obj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 town	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 town	det
20	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wrote	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Palace	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Palace	det
23	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 town	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 garden	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 garden	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 garden	det
27	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 learned	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the travellers		about thing	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	past	travellers = traveller		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	learn	past				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	write	past	scholars	many books	upon the town	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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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