The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 99

When she got there she told them how Halvor had come home again, and now they should just see how magnificent he was.

Who acts: woman, Halvor, ashes · What happens: get, tell, come, see, be · To what, where: ashes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Halvor, ashes), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 come	advmod
9	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 come	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	ccomp
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 see	cc
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 see	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 see	advmod
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	conj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 magnificent	advmod
22	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 see	ccomp
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 magnificent	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 magnificent	cop
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	woman		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	woman	ashes = ash				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come	past · perfect	Halvor			again	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	should	ashes = ash			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	Halvor				magnificent property	tree rules

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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