The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 130

When she arrived the old man scolded her, and asked what had kept her so long behind.

Who acts: noise, old man · What happens: arrive, scold, ask, keep · To what, where: noise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, old man), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 arrived	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scolded	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scolded	nsubj
7	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scolded	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scolded	conj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 kept	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 kept	aux
14	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 asked	ccomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kept	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 behind	advmod
18	behind	behind	ADV	_	14 kept	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 scolded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	noise			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scold	past	the old man	noise		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	the old man not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	keep	past · perfect · passive		noise	behind property	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme she=Attribute

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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