The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 123

They had all gone on a hunting expedition, as their larder was empty, and the only person left at home was their grandmother, who was so feeble she never went out of the house.

Who acts: wife, larder, only person, grandmother, person · What happens: go, be, leave, not go out · To what, where: hunting expedition, only person, home, grandmother, house

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, larder, only person, grandmother), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 expedition	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 expedition	det
7	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expedition	compound
8	expedition	expedition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 empty	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 empty	mark
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 larder	nmod:poss
12	larder	larder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 empty	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 empty	cop
14	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grandmother	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 grandmother	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 person	det
18	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 person	amod
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grandmother	nsubj
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 person	acl
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 home	case
22	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 left	obl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 grandmother	cop
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 grandmother	nmod:poss
25	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 empty	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 feeble	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 feeble	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 feeble	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 feeble	advmod
30	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grandmother	parataxis
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 went	nsubj
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 went	advmod
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 feeble	parataxis
34	out	out	ADP	_	37 house	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 house	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 house	det
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	wife		a hunting expedition	all property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on expedition=Location
2	is	past	wife's larder			empty property	tree rules
3	leave	participle		the only person not said here	home		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location
4	is a	past	the only person	wife's grandmother			tree rules
5	is	past	wife's grandmother			feeble property	tree rules
6	not go out	past	person	the house			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 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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