The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 88

In the evening the robbers arrived very tired, and crosser than they had been yesterday, for their luck had turned and they had brought back scarcely anything.

Who acts: robbers, men, luck · What happens: arrive, be, turn, bring back · To what, where: men

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (robbers, men, luck), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrived	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 robbers	det
5	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 arrived	nsubj
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 tired	advmod
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 arrived	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crosser	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 crosser	cc
11	crosser	cross	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 arrived	conj
12	than	than	ADP	_	16 yesterday	case
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 yesterday	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 yesterday	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 yesterday	cop
16	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crosser	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 turned	mark
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 luck	nmod:poss
20	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 turned	aux
22	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 arrived	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 brought	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 brought	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 brought	aux
26	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 turned	conj
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 brought	advmod
28	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	29 anything	advmod
29	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 brought	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the robbers		evening	tired property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past · perfect	men = man		than yesterday		tree rules
3	turn	past · perfect	men's luck				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	bring back	past · perfect · passive		men = man			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination anything=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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