The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 77
Then the girl hastened home, and when her father came home from the feast with the witch, she was in her usual place behind the stove.
Who acts: girl, father · What happens: hasten, come, be · To what, where: feast, usual place
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, father), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hastened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hastened | nsubj |
| 4 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 hastened | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 place | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 place | cc |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 place | advcl |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 feast | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 feast | det |
| 15 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 witch | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 witch | det |
| 18 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feast | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 place | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 place | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 place | nmod:poss |
| 24 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 place | amod |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hastened | parataxis |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 28 stove | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stove | det |
| 28 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 place | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the girl | then | home property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | come | past | girl's father | the feast with the witch | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from feast=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | girl | girl's usual place | behind the stove | 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 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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