The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 79

In the morning they talked over their plans, and were most at a loss to know how to get out of the island.

Who acts: women · What happens: talk, be, know, get out, plan · To what, where: plans, loss, island · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talked	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talked	nsubj
5	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 plans	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 plans	nmod:poss
8	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 loss	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 loss	cc
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 loss	cop
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	15 loss	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 loss	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 loss	det
15	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talked	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 know	mark
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 loss	acl
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 get	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 get	mark
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 know	ccomp
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 island	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 island	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 island	det
24	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	talk	past	women = woman		women's plans	morning	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past			a loss		tree rules
3	know	to-infinitive	women = woman not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	get out	to-infinitive		the island			tree rules
5	plan		women = woman				nom plan «cognition 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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