The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 53

After they had all ridden, in company with their brides, for some distance, they arrived at a brook, and one of them asked, ‘Now, who will go and fetch water from the brook?’

Who acts: daughters, one · What happens: ride, arrive, ask, go, fetch · To what, where: company, brook, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, one), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	5 ridden	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ridden	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ridden	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 ridden	advmod
5	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 arrived	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 company	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 company	case
8	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ridden	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 brides	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brides	nmod:poss
11	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 company	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 distance	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 distance	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 distance	det
15	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ridden	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ridden	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 arrived	nsubj
18	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 brook	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 brook	det
21	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 arrived	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 asked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 asked	cc
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 asked	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 one	nmod
27	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 arrived	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 go	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 go	punct
30	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 go	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Now	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 go	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 go	aux
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 asked	ccomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fetch	cc
36	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 go	conj
37	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fetch	obj
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 brook	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 brook	det
40	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fetch	obl
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 go	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past · perfect	daughters = daughter		company with daughters's brides		for some distance; all property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	arrive	past	daughters = daughter		a brook			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	one of daughters					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	future				now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fetch	infinitive		water	the brook			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from brook=Source

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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