The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 54
On his return to the palace he was well scolded by the housekeeper for staying away so long.
Who acts: housekeeper, king · What happens: scold, stay away, return · To what, where: king, return
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (housekeeper, king), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 return | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 return | nmod:poss |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scolded | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 return | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 scolded | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 scolded | aux:pass |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 scolded | advmod |
| 10 | scolded | scold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 housekeeper | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 housekeeper | det |
| 13 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scolded | obl |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 staying | mark |
| 15 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 scolded | advcl |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 staying | advmod |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 long | advmod |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 staying | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 scolded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scold | past · passive | the housekeeper | king | king's return to the palace | well property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||
| 2 | stay away | gerund | the housekeeper not said here | away, long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | king | to the palace | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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