The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 125

And when he went back for them there he found two horrid old black hags, wrangling, and scolding, and scratching!

Who acts: Kabo · What happens: go back, find, wrangle · To what, where: two horrid old black hags, scolding

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kabo), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 went	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	advcl
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hags	nummod
12	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hags	amod
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hags	amod
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hags	amod
15	hags	hag	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 found	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wrangling	punct
17	wrangling	wrangle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 found	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 scolding	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 scolding	cc
20	scolding	scolding	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wrangling	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 scratching	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 scratching	cc
23	scratching	scratching	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go back	past	Kabo		there	for nuts = nut	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	find	past	Kabo	two horrid old black hags		scratching obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hag=Topic
3	wrangle	gerund	Kabo not said here	scolding			tree rules

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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