The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 34

They had set out to meet him, and would try to take the magic water from him, and then claim as their reward the government of the emperor.

Who acts: brothers · What happens: set out, meet, try, take, claim, reward · To what, where: brothers, Birscha, magic water

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (brothers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	aux
3	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	to	to	PART	_	6 meet	mark
6	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 meet	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 try	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 try	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 try	aux
11	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 set	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 take	mark
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 try	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
15	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 water	compound
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 claim	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 claim	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 claim	advmod
22	claim	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 set	parataxis
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 reward	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 reward	nmod:poss
25	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 claim	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 government	det
27	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reward	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 emperor	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 emperor	det
30	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 government	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past · perfect · passive		brothers = brother			tree rules
2	meet	to-infinitive		Birscha			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	try	would					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	take not said to happen	to-infinitive		the magic water		from Birscha	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from he=Initial_Location
5	claim speech: other	present			then	as brothers's reward	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	reward		brothers = brother				nom reward «event 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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