The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 67

Toward mid-day the gardener’s son arranged the bones in their places, and he had hardly scattered the ashes over them before the old King revived, to find himself once more young and hearty.

Who acts: mid-day son, old King · What happens: arrange, scatter, revive, find · To what, where: bones, places, son, king

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mid-day son, old King), 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	Toward	toward	ADP	_	2 mid-day	case
2	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	compound
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gardener	det
4	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 gardener	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arranged	nsubj
7	arranged	arrange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bones	det
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 arranged	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 places	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 places	nmod:poss
12	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 arranged	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 scattered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 scattered	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 scattered	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 scattered	aux
17	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	18 scattered	advmod
18	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 arranged	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ashes	det
20	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 scattered	obj
21	over	over	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 scattered	obl
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 revived	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 King	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 King	amod
26	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 revived	nsubj
27	revived	revive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 scattered	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 find	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 find	mark
30	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 revived	advcl
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 find	obj
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	33 more	advmod
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 young	advmod
34	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 find	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hearty	cc
36	hearty	hearty	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 young	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 arranged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrange	past	the gardener's mid-day son	the bones	bones's places		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme in place=Destination
2	scatter	past · perfect · passive		son		over bones = bone; hardly property	tree rules
3	revive	past	the old King				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	find	to-infinitive	the old King not said here	king		young property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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