The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 33

A fortnight after the old woman had paid her visit, the king came home, having conquered his enemies.

Who acts: king, woman · What happens: pay, come, conquer, visit · To what, where: fortnight, enemies

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, woman), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fortnight	det
2	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paid	nsubj:pass
3	after	after	ADP	_	6 woman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fortnight	nmod
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 paid	aux
8	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 visit	nmod:poss
10	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paid	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 paid	conj
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 conquered	punct
17	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 conquered	aux
18	conquered	conquer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 came	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 enemies	nmod:poss
20	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 conquered	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pay	past · perfect · passive		a fortnight after the old woman		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient visit=Asset
2	come	past	the king		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	conquer	gerund · perfect	the king not said here	king's enemies		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient
4	visit		woman			nom visit «act 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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