The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 10

At the end of that time he came back from hunting one night and found some wood by the door and a fire within.

Who acts: husband · What happens: come back, hunt, find · To what, where: end, wood

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dead Wife(20). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	from	from	SCONJ	_	11 hunting	mark
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 night	nummod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunting	obl:unmarked
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 door	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fire	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fire	det
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 door	conj
24	within	within	ADP	_	15 found	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	husband		at the end of that time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location
2	hunt	gerund	husband not said here		night		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	husband not said here	some wood		by the door and a fire	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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