The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 17

Hercules had come back with its cargo from Asia, The Flea had arrived from Polynesia, and the other parts of the world were just where they were before.

Who acts: Hercules, Flea, other parts · What happens: come back, arrive, be · To what, where: Asia, Polynesia

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (Hercules, Flea, other parts), 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	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 cargo	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cargo	nmod:poss
7	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 Asia	case
9	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cargo	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 arrived	punct
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Flea	det
12	Flea	Flea	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 arrived	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 arrived	aux
14	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 Asia	acl:relcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 Polynesia	case
16	Polynesia	Polynesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 arrived	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 parts	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 parts	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 parts	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 parts	amod
21	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 before	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 parts	nmod
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 before	cop
26	just	just	ADV	_	27 where	advmod
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 before	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 before	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 before	cop
30	before	before	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come back	past · perfect	Hercules			with land's cargo from Asia	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	arrive	past · perfect	the Flea	Asia not said here	Polynesia		tree rules
3	is	past	the other parts of the world			before property	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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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