The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 124

He came more rarely to Locquignol, and very soon he did not come at all.

Who acts: man · What happens: come, not come · To what, where: Locquignol, all

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 rarely	advmod
4	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Locquignol	case
6	Locquignol	Locquignol	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 soon	advmod
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 come	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 come	advmod
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 come	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	man			Locquignol		rarely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to locquignol=Initial_Location
2	not come	past · do-support	man			all		soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=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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