The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 81
As soon as the business was finished, Rosald hastened home.
Who acts: business, Rosald · What happens: be, hasten
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (business, Rosald), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 finished | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 finished | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 business | det |
| 5 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finished | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 finished | cop |
| 7 | finished | finished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hastened | punct |
| 9 | Rosald | Rosald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hastened | nsubj |
| 10 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 finished | acl:relcl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 hastened | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the business | finished, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hasten | past | Rosald | home property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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