The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 77

But the girl, who had just been out to look at her tree, told him that they were all eaten, so he went back empty-handed to his mistress.

Who acts: girl, brother · What happens: be, look, tell, eat, go back, hand · To what, where: brother, trees, mistress · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, brother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 out	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 out	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 out	aux
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 out	advmod
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 out	cop
9	out	out	ADV	_	3 girl	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 look	mark
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 out	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tree	nmod:poss
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 look	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 girl	punct
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 eaten	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eaten	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 eaten	aux:pass
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 eaten	advmod
22	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 told	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	conj
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
28	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 went	xcomp
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 empty	punct
30	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 went	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 mistress	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mistress	nmod:poss
33	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 handed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the girl			out property	tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	the girl not said here			at few's tree	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the girl		brother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	eat	past · passive		trees = tree		all property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	go back	past	brother			empty property	tree rules
6	hand	participle	brother not said here		brother's mistress		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to mistress=Destination

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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