The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 98

In the evening, when they returned, they found the giant helpless and tied to a tree by one enormous hair!

Who acts: poles · What happens: return, find, tie

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poles), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 returned	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 returned	nsubj
7	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 returned	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 helpless	det
12	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 helpless	amod
13	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 found	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tied	cc
15	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 helpless	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 tree	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tied	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 hair	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 hair	nummod
21	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hair	amod
22	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tied	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	poles = pole			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	poles = pole	evening	helpless property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	tie	participle	poles = pole not said here		to a tree; by one enormous hair	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to tree=Co-Patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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