The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 85

Very soon after this, Moti, who continued to live in the serai, came back one wet and stormy evening to find that his precious horse had strayed.

What happens: continue, live, come back, find, stray · To what, where: Moti, serai, precious horse · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 continued	advmod
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 soon	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Moti	punct
6	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 continued	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 continued	nsubj
9	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 live	mark
11	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 continued	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 serai	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 serai	det
14	serai	serai	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 live	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 continued	conj
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 evening	nummod
19	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 evening	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stormy	cc
21	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wet	conj
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl:unmarked
23	to	to	PART	_	24 find	mark
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 came	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 strayed	mark
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 horse	nmod:poss
27	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 horse	amod
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 strayed	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 strayed	aux
30	strayed	stray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 find	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	Moti			soon property	vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	live	to-infinitive		the serai			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in serai=Location
3	come back	past			evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	to-infinitive					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	stray	past · perfect · passive	Moti's precious horse				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 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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