The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 222
Fortunately it was now near evening, and the seven Dwarfs returned home.
Who acts: way, seven Dwarfs · What happens: be, return
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 (way, seven Dwarfs), 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 | Fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 6 evening | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 evening | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 evening | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 evening | advmod |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 evening | case |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 returned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 returned | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Dwarfs | det |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Dwarfs | nummod |
| 11 | Dwarfs | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 returned | nsubj |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 evening | conj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 returned | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | way | near evening; now | fortunately property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | return | past | the seven Dwarfs | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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