The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 49

Now it happened that the next evening the father, who had been alone in the forest, came back a second time without his axe.

Who acts: it, father, next evening · What happens: happen, be, come back · To what, where: forest

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, father, next evening), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 evening	det
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 evening	amod
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 father	det
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 evening	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 alone	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 alone	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 alone	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 alone	cop
14	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 father	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 alone	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 evening	punct
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	advcl
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 time	det
22	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl:unmarked
24	without	without	ADP	_	26 axe	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 axe	nmod:poss
26	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 time	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it		now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past · perfect	the father	the forest		alone property	tree rules
3	come back	past	the next evening		time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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