The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 93

The next morning came one of the robbers to fetch the guitar, and to hear what had happened.

Who acts: next morning · What happens: come, fetch, hear, happen · To what, where: one, guitar

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next morning), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 came	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 robbers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 robbers	det
8	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fetch	mark
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 robbers	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 guitar	det
12	guitar	guitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fetch	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hear	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hear	mark
16	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 happened	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 happened	aux
19	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 hear	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past	the next morning	one of the robbers	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
2	fetch	to-infinitive	the next morning not said here	the guitar	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guitar=Theme
3	hear	to-infinitive	the next morning not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	happen	past · perfect			vn occur-48.3-1 «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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