The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 45

One day the children came to their father and said, ‘Father, we want to mount on golden steeds, and ride forth to see the world.’

Who acts: children, we · What happens: come, say, want, mount, ride, see · To what, where: golden steeds, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, we), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 father	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
12	‘	‘	ADP	_	13 Father	case
13	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 want	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Father	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 want	nsubj
16	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 mount	mark
18	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 want	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 steeds	case
20	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 steeds	amod
21	steeds	steed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 mount	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ride	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ride	cc
24	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
25	forth	forth	ADV	_	24 ride	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ride	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the children			day	to children's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the children not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	present	we				‘ Father	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	mount not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here		golden steeds			vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on steed=Destination
5	ride	present	the children not said here				forth property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	see	to-infinitive	the children not said here	the world				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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