The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 78
In the evening her husband returned from hunting a long way off, and found his wife in tears.
Who acts: husband · What happens: return, hunt, find · To what, where: long way, wife, tears
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 (husband), 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 returned | obl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 husband | nmod:poss |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 8 hunting | mark |
| 8 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 returned | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 way | amod |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunting | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADV | _ | 11 way | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tears | case |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 found | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | few's husband | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | few's husband not said here | a long way | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | few's husband not said here | husband's wife | tears | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |
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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