The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 38

One day, when Koane had slept later than usual, his father and mother went to their work before him, and there was only Thakane to be seen busy making the bread for supper.

Who acts: Koane, father · What happens: sleep, go, be, see, make, work · To what, where: work, Thakane, bread

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 (Koane, father), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slept	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 slept	advmod
5	Koane	Koane	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 slept	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 slept	aux
7	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 usual	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 usual	case
10	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slept	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mother	cc
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 father	conj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 slept	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 work	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 work	nmod:poss
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 was	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 was	cc
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 slept	parataxis
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 Thakane	advmod
27	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 was	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	30 seen	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 seen	aux:pass
30	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 was	advcl
31	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 seen	xcomp
32	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 busy	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bread	det
34	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 making	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 supper	case
36	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 making	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · perfect	Koane			day	usual property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	Koane's father and mother		father's work	before Koane		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location
3	be	past		Thakane	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive · passive					busy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
5	make	gerund		the bread			for supper	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bread=Material for supper=Beneficiary
6	work		father					nom work «act intransitive»: 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 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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