The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 134

So when the Priest returned home in the evening the youth began to cry, ‘Father Lawrence!

Who acts: Priest, youth · What happens: return, begin, cry · To what, where: Father Lawrence

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Priest, youth), 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	So	so	ADV	_	12 began	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 returned	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Priest	det
4	Priest	Priest	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 returned	nsubj
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 began	advcl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 returned	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 evening	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 evening	det
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cry	mark
14	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Lawrence	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Lawrence	punct
17	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Lawrence	compound
18	Lawrence	Lawrence	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cry	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the Priest		evening	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	the youth				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	Father Lawrence			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lawrence=Topic

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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