The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 97

When he arrived home he found his wife and daughter mourning for him, for they thought that he had been eaten by lions; but he comforted them, saying that while following a wounded antelope he had missed his way and had wandered for a long time before he had found the path again.

Who acts: Sipao, wife, wives, lions · What happens: arrive, find, mourn, think, eat, comfort · To what, where: wife, Sipao, wives, wounded antelope, way, path · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sipao, wife, wives, lions), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 arrived	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 arrived	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 daughter	cc
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	conj
11	mourning	mourn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 wife	acl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 mourning	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 thought	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 eaten	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eaten	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 eaten	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 eaten	aux:pass
22	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 thought	ccomp
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 lions	case
24	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eaten	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 comforted	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 comforted	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 comforted	nsubj
28	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 comforted	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saying	punct
31	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 comforted	advcl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 missed	mark
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 following	mark
34	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 missed	advcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 antelope	det
36	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 antelope	amod
37	antelope	antelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 following	obj
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 missed	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 missed	aux
40	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 saying	ccomp
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 way	nmod:poss
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 missed	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 wandered	cc
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 wandered	aux
45	wandered	wander	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 missed	conj
46	for	for	ADP	_	49 time	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 time	det
48	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 time	amod
49	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 wandered	obl
50	before	before	SCONJ	_	53 found	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 found	nsubj
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 found	aux
53	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 wandered	advcl
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 path	det
55	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 found	obj
56	again	again	ADV	_	53 found	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	Sipao			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	Sipao	Sipao's wife and daughter			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
3	mourn	gerund	Sipao's wife and daughter not said here			for Sipao	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for he=Attribute
4	think speech: other	past	wives = wife				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	eat	past · perfect · passive	lions	Sipao			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
6	comfort	past	Sipao	wives = wife			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
7	say speech: assert	gerund	Sipao not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	follow	gerund	Sipao not said here	a wounded antelope			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antelope=Theme
9	miss	past · perfect	Sipao	Sipao's way			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
10	wander	past · perfect	Sipao not said here		time		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	find	past · perfect	Sipao	the path	again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=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 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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