The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 38

After they had gone, Thakane returned to the village, which Masilo had managed to reach before her.

Who acts: joy, Thakane · What happens: go, return, manage, reach · To what, where: village

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, Thakane), 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	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 returned	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
6	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 returned	nsubj
7	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 village	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 village	det
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 returned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 managed	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 managed	nsubj:pass
13	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 managed	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 managed	aux
15	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 village	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 reach	mark
17	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 managed	xcomp
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reach	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	joy				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	return	past	Thakane			to the village result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result
3	manage	past · perfect · passive		the village			tree rules
4	reach	to-infinitive			before Thakane		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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