The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 103
When the brothers returned from their hunting they found both the hut and the sheds empty.
Who acts: brothers, pastures · What happens: return, find, hunt · To what, where: hunting, hut
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (brothers, pastures), 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 | 4 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | advcl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 hunting | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hunting | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 12 hut | cc:preconj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hut | det |
| 12 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 empty | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sheds | det |
| 15 | sheds | shed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 empty | nsubj |
| 16 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 found | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the brothers | pastures's hunting | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hunting=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | pastures = pasture | the hut | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hunt | pastures = pasture | nom hunting «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 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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