The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 54

One evening the old woman was astonished to find that her very best nanny-goat returned without a drop of milk.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: be, find, return · To what, where: best nanny goat

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 astonished	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 astonished	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 astonished	cop
7	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 find	mark
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 astonished	xcomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 goat	mark
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 goat	nmod:poss
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 best	advmod
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 goat	amod
14	nanny	nanny	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 goat	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 nanny	punct
16	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	ccomp
17	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 goat	acl
18	without	without	ADP	_	20 drop	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 drop	det
20	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 returned	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 milk	case
22	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drop	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old woman		evening	astonished property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	return	participle		widow's best nanny goat not said here		without a drop of milk	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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