The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 174

Every morning the Dwarfs went into the mountain to dig for gold, and in the evening, when they returned home, Snowdrop always had their supper ready for them.

Who acts: Dwarfs, Snowdrop · What happens: go, dig, return, have · To what, where: mountain, supper

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dwarfs, Snowdrop), 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 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Dwarfs	det
4	Dwarfs	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 mountain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mountain	det
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 dig	mark
10	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 gold	case
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dig	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 returned	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 returned	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 evening	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 evening	det
17	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 returned	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 evening	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 returned	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 returned	nsubj
21	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
22	home	home	ADV	_	21 returned	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
24	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 had	nsubj
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 had	advmod
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 supper	nmod:poss
28	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
29	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 had	xcomp
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ready	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the Dwarfs		the mountain	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mountain=Initial_Location
2	dig	to-infinitive	the Dwarfs not said here				for gold	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for gold=Theme
3	return	past	dwarfs = dwarf			evening	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	Snowdrop	dwarfs's supper			always, ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient

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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