The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 34

One evening the student came in by the back door to buy a candle and some cheese; he had no one to send, so he came himself.

Who acts: student · What happens: come in, buy, have, send, come · To what, where: candle, one, student

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 student	det
4	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 door	compound
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 buy	mark
12	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 candle	det
14	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 buy	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cheese	cc
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 cheese	det
17	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 candle	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 send	mark
24	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 one	acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 came	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	conj
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 came	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past	the student		evening	by the back door	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by door=Location
2	buy	to-infinitive	the student not said here	a candle and some cheese			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Theme
3	have	past	student	no one			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	send	to-infinitive	student not said here	no one not said here			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	come	past	student	student			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/2/34/