The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 114
After that the servant returned to Masilo and related all that had happened.
Who acts: that · What happens: return, happen · To what, where: Masilo
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 servant | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 servant | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servant | det |
| 4 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Masilo | case |
| 7 | Masilo | Masilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 related | cc |
| 9 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Masilo | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 happened | det:predet |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 happened | aux |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 returned | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Masilo | after that servant | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to masilo=Result | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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