The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 7
Soon after this Helga’s father came home and found his daughter in tears.
Who acts: father · What happens: come, find · To what, where: daughter, tears
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Helga | det |
| 4 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Helga | case |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tears | case |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 found | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this Helga's father | home, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | this Helga's father not said here | father's daughter | tears | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic |
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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