The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 42

So, one day, when he expected it least, his reward came to him.

Who acts: Gilguerillo, reward · What happens: expect, come, reward · To what, where: thing, Gilguerillo

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gilguerillo, reward), 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 expected	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expected	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 expected	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 expected	nsubj
8	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 expected	obj
10	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 expected	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 reward	nmod:poss
13	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 expected	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	expect	past	Gilguerillo	thing		day	least property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	come	past	Gilguerillo's reward		Gilguerillo			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3	reward		Gilguerillo					nom reward «event 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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