The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 9

In a week’s time he came back to the clerk to hear about the calf and see how it was thriving.

Who acts: man, calf · What happens: come back, hear, see, thrive · To what, where: clerk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, calf), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 week	det
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 week	case
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 clerk	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 clerk	det
11	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hear	mark
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	advcl
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 calf	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 calf	det
16	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hear	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hear	conj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 thriving	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thriving	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thriving	aux
22	thriving	thrive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 see	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	man	the clerk	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to clerk=Initial_Location
2	hear	to-infinitive	man not said here			about the calf	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about calf=Stimulus
3	see	infinitive	man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	thrive	past · progressive	calf				vn exist-47.1 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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