The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 45
Every evening, when his work was done, Guilbert came to visit his future bride.
Who acts: Guilbert, Count · What happens: do, come, visit, work · To what, where: work, future bride
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 (Guilbert, Count), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 done | advmod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 work | nmod:poss |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 done | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux:pass |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 evening | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 evening | punct |
| 10 | Guilbert | Guilbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 visit | mark |
| 13 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 came | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bride | nmod:poss |
| 15 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bride | amod |
| 16 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 visit | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | Count's work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Guilbert | evening | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | visit | to-infinitive | Guilbert not said here | Count's future bride | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | work | Count | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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