The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 29

Renelde hoped she had got rid of him, when one day he stopped at the door, his duck-gun under his arm and his game-bag on his shoulder.

Who acts: Renelde, Burchard · What happens: hope, get, stop · To what, where: duck gun, door · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Renelde, Burchard), 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	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hoped	nsubj
2	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 hoped	ccomp
6	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stopped	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 stopped	advmod
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	nummod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stopped	obl:unmarked
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stopped	nsubj
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hoped	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 door	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stopped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gun	punct
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 gun	nmod:poss
20	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gun	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 duck	punct
22	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stopped	obl
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 arm	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 arm	nmod:poss
25	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gun	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bag	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bag	nmod:poss
28	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bag	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 game	punct
30	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 arm	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 shoulder	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 shoulder	nmod:poss
33	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bag	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hoped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past	Renelde					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get	past · perfect	Renelde				rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	stop	past	Burchard	Burchard's duck gun under Burchard's arm and Burchard's game bag on Burchard's shoulder	the door	day		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=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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