Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 23

In a little while the wom-an came back.

What happens: come back · To what, where: wom

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	In	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 wom	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 In	obl:unmarked
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	1 In	fixed
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wom	det
6	wom	wom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 wom	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 came	det
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past				the wom			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wom=Location

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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