The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 24

It was the colonel himself who came with the patrol, and he was not a little surprised when he found the recruit safe and sound.

Who acts: front, colonel, noise · What happens: be, come, not be, find · To what, where: colonel, recruit

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (front, colonel, noise), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 colonel	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 colonel	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colonel	det
4	colonel	colonel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	4 colonel	nmod:unmarked
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 colonel	parataxis
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 patrol	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 patrol	det
10	patrol	patrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 surprised	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 surprised	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 surprised	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 surprised	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 surprised	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 little	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 surprised	obl:unmarked
18	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 came	conj
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 found	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 surprised	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 recruit	det
23	recruit	recruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obj
24	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 found	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sound	cc
26	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 safe	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 colonel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	front	the colonel	noise nmod:unmarked	tree rules
2	come	past	the colonel		with the patrol	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is	past	noise		a little obl:unmarked; surprised property	tree rules
4	find	past	noise	the recruit	safe property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recruit=Topic

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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