The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 3

In the evening she returned to the farm more angry than ever, and quite determined to revenge herself on the brownie whenever she had the chance, which happened to be very soon.

Who acts: she, brownie, chance · What happens: return, have, happen, be · To what, where: chance

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she, brownie, chance), 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	5 returned	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 returned	nsubj
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 farm	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farm	det
8	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	obl
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 angry	advmod
10	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 returned	advcl
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 ever	case
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 angry	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 determined	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 determined	cc
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 determined	advmod
16	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 returned	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 revenge	mark
18	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 determined	conj
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 revenge	nmod:unmarked
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 brownie	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 brownie	det
22	brownie	brownie	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 determined	obl
23	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 had	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 brownie	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chance	det
27	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 happened	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 happened	nsubj
30	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 chance	acl
31	to	to	PART	_	34 soon	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 soon	cop
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 soon	advmod
34	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 happened	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	she		evening	to the farm result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to farm=Result
2	have	past	brownie	the chance		whenever property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
3	happen	past	the chance				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive				soon 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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