English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 76

The Elfin king then said some words to Burd Ellen, and she was disenchanted, and they all four passed out of the hall, through the long passage, and turned their back on the Dark Tower, never to return again.

Who acts: Elfin king, souls · What happens: say, disenchant, pass out, turn, not return · To what, where: words, Burd, word, hall, back, Dark Tower · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elfin king, souls), 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	3 king	det
2	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 king	compound
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 words	det
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Burd	case
9	Burd	Burd	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 words	nmod
10	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Burd	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 disenchanted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 disenchanted	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 disenchanted	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 disenchanted	aux:pass
15	disenchanted	disenchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 passed	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 passed	nsubj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 four	det
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 passed	nsubj
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 disenchanted	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 hall	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 hall	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hall	det
25	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 passed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 passage	punct
27	through	through	ADP	_	30 passage	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 passage	det
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 passage	amod
30	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 passed	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 turned	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 turned	cc
33	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 back	nmod:poss
35	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 turned	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	39 Tower	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Tower	det
38	Dark	Dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Tower	compound
39	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 turned	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 return	punct
41	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	43 return	advmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 return	mark
43	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 turned	conj
44	again	again	ADV	_	43 return	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Elfin king	some words	Burd		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to burd=Recipient
2	disenchant	past · passive		word				tree rules
3	pass out	past	souls = soul	the hall				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent hall=Theme
4	turn	past	the Elfin king not said here	souls's back		the Dark Tower		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
5	not return	to-infinitive	the Elfin king not said here				again	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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