The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 10

Towards evening the nyamatsanes came back to the hut full of anxiety to know how their grandmother had got on during their absence.

Who acts: nyamatsanes, grandmother · What happens: come back, know, get on, absent · To what, where: hut · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nyamatsanes, 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	Towards	toward	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 evening	compound
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nyamatsanes	det
4	nyamatsanes	nyamatsane	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 hut	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hut	det
9	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hut	amod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 anxiety	case
12	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 full	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 know	mark
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	advcl
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 got	advmod
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 grandmother	nmod:poss
17	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 got	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 got	aux
19	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 know	ccomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 got	compound:prt
21	during	during	ADP	_	23 absence	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 absence	nmod:poss
23	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 got	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	come back	past	the nyamatsanes	the hut	evening	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location
2	know	to-infinitive	the nyamatsanes not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	get on	past · perfect	nyamatsanes's grandmother		during nyamatsanes's absence	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	absent		nyamatsanes = nyamatsane			nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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