The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 72

Just at this moment the Grandmother arrives, returning from the town with her long sack empty on her shoulder.

Who acts: Grandmother · What happens: arrive, return · To what, where: town

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandmother), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	4 moment	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrives	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Grandmother	det
6	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 arrives	nsubj
7	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 returning	punct
9	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 arrives	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 town	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 returning	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 empty	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 empty	nmod:poss
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 empty	amod
16	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 empty	compound
17	empty	empty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 returning	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 shoulder	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shoulder	nmod:poss
20	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 empty	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 arrives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	the Grandmother				moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	return	gerund	the Grandmother not said here			the town		with Grandmother's long sack empty on Grandmother's shoulder	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location

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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