The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 58
At Father Gatto’s next visit he found the whole colony in a state of uproar.
Who acts: work, Father · What happens: find, visit · To what, where: whole colony, next visit
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 6 visit | case |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 visit | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Gatto | Gatto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Father | flat |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Father | case |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 visit | amod |
| 6 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 colony | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 colony | amod |
| 11 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 state | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 state | det |
| 14 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 uproar | case |
| 16 | uproar | uproar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 state | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | work | the whole colony | Father's next visit | in a state of uproar | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent colony=Theme at visit=Asset | ||
| 2 | visit | Father | nom visit «act 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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