The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 121
After a while he was called away, and when he went back to his work he found a wonderful thing had happened!
Who acts: master, wonderful thing · What happens: call away, go back, find, happen, work · To what, where: master · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, wonderful thing), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 called | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | aux:pass |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 called | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | advcl |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 work | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 work | nmod:poss |
| 16 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 thing | det |
| 20 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thing | amod |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 happened | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 happened | aux |
| 23 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 found | ccomp |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call away speech: assert | past · passive | master | while | away property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | go back | past | master | to master's work result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to work=Result | ||||
| 3 | find | past | master | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | a wonderful thing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | work | master | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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