The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 55
In a few hours he was standing in his old home, where his father, three sisters, and two brothers gave him a hearty welcome.
Who acts: king, father · What happens: stand, give · To what, where: old home, hearty welcome, king
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, father), 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 | _ | 4 hours | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hours | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hours | amod |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 standing | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 standing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 standing | aux |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 home | nmod:poss |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 home | amod |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 gave | advmod |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sisters | punct |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 sisters | nummod |
| 18 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 father | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 brothers | nummod |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 standing | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | iobj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 welcome | det |
| 26 | hearty | hearty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 welcome | compound |
| 27 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | king | king's old home | hour | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in home=Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | king's father and three sisters | a hearty welcome | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient welcome=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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