The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 123
And the master, having handed over the clothes, went home, but he no longer found his dear journeyman there.
Who acts: master · What happens: hand, go, find · To what, where: master, clothes, dear journeyman
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 master | det |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 handed | punct |
| 5 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 handed | aux |
| 6 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 master | acl |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 clothes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clothes | det |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 handed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 master | punct |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 longer | advmod |
| 17 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 found | advmod |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 journeyman | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 journeyman | amod |
| 21 | journeyman | journeyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obj |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 found | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | gerund · perfect | the master not said here | the clothes | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the master | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | master | master's dear journeyman | there | long property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journeyman=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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