The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 98

Very early next morning Helga’s father went to the town, and as soon as he was well out of the way the girl held up her glove and Sigurd was himself again.

Who acts: father, girl, glove · What happens: go, be, hold up · To what, where: town, way, Sigurd

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, girl, glove), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 early	advmod
2	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 went	advmod
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl:unmarked
5	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 father	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Helga	case
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 held	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 held	cc
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 soon	advmod
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 held	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 way	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 way	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 way	cop
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 way	advmod
20	out	out	ADP	_	23 way	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 way	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 held	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 girl	det
25	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 held	nsubj
26	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 held	compound:prt
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 glove	nmod:poss
29	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 himself	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Sigurd	cc
31	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 glove	conj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 himself	cop
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 held	obl
34	again	again	ADV	_	26 held	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Helga's father		the town	morning	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
2	is	past	father		the way		well property	tree rules
3	hold up	past	the girl			again	soon property	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	is a	past	Helga's glove and Sigurd	Sigurd				tree rules

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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