The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 54
The hunters came back early, longing to see how Paul had got on, and, to their surprise, dinner was quite ready for them.
Who acts: hunters, Paul, surprise · What happens: come back, long, see, get on, be, surprise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunters, Paul, surprise), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hunters | det |
| 2 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 longing | punct |
| 7 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 longing | advcl |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 got | advmod |
| 11 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 got | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 see | ccomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 got | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ready | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ready | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 surprise | punct |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 surprise | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 20 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ready | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dinner | punct |
| 22 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 surprise | conj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 ready | cop |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 ready | advmod |
| 25 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ready | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the hunters | early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | long | gerund | the hunters not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the hunters not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get on | past · perfect | Paul | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | hunters's surprise and dinner | for hunters = hunter; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | surprise | hunters = hunter | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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: «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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