More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 121

At last the Childe of Lambton came home to his father's Hall, after seven long years spent in meditation and repentance on holy soil.

Who acts: last Childe · What happens: come, spend · To what, where: Hall, seven long years, meditation

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last Childe), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Childe	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Childe	det
4	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Lambton	case
6	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Childe	nmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 Hall	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Hall	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 father	case
13	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 years	punct
15	after	after	ADP	_	18 years	case
16	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 years	amod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	obl:unmarked
19	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 years	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 meditation	case
21	meditation	meditation	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spent	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 repentance	cc
23	repentance	repentance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 meditation	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 soil	case
25	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 soil	amod
26	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 repentance	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the last Childe of Lambton			Childe's father's Hall	year	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hall=Initial_Location
2	spend	participle		seven long years not said here		meditation and repentance on holy soil			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «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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