The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 63
In the evening, when they all returned from the battle, there he was, sitting in the road, making clay dolls.
Who acts: host, knight · What happens: return, sit, make · To what, where: battle, road, clay dolls
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (host, knight), 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 | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 returned | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 returned | nsubj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 they | det |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 battle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 battle | det |
| 11 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sitting | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 sitting | expl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sitting | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sitting | aux |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sitting | punct |
| 17 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 returned | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 road | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 road | det |
| 20 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sitting | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 making | punct |
| 22 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 sitting | advcl |
| 23 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dolls | compound |
| 24 | dolls | doll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 making | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | host | the battle | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from battle=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | knight | the road; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in road=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | knight not said here | clay dolls | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset doll=Product |
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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