The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 115

It was late that night when Alonzo returned home.

Who acts: certain, Alonzo · What happens: be, return

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain, Alonzo), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 late	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	cop
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 late	obl:unmarked
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 returned	advmod
7	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 returned	nsubj
8	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	conj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 returned	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	certain				night	late property	tree rules
2	return	past	Alonzo					home property	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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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