More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 22

It was late in the evening ere he could turn homeward, and on the road there met him four lusty rogues that had been robbing passengers all day.

Who acts: way, Tom, road, four lusty rogues · What happens: be, turn, meet, rob · To what, where: evening ere, homeward, Tom, passengers

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, Tom, road, four lusty rogues), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 late	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	cop
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 ere	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ere	det
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ere	compound
7	ere	ere	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 late	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turn	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 turn	aux
10	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ere	acl:relcl
11	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 met	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 met	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 road	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 road	det
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 met	nsubj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 road	advmod
18	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 met	obj
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 rogues	nummod
21	lusty	lusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rogues	amod
22	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 met	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 robbing	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 robbing	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 robbing	aux
26	robbing	rob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 rogues	acl:relcl
27	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 robbing	obj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 robbing	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	way		the evening ere		late property	tree rules
2	turn	could	Tom	homeward				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme
3	meet	past	the road	Tom				tree rules
4	rob	past · perfect · progressive	four lusty rogues	passengers		day		vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passenger=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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