The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 102

They returned to the house, took all the food that could be found in the old mother’s larder, and carried it back to the place where the club was lying.

Who acts: things, club · What happens: return, take, find, carry back, lie · To what, where: food, larder, place

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, club), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returned	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 returned	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 food	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 food	det
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 found	nsubj:pass
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 found	aux:pass
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 food	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	20 larder	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mother	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mother	amod
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 larder	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 mother	case
20	larder	larder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 carried	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 carried	cc
23	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carried	obj
25	back	back	ADV	_	23 carried	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 place	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 place	det
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carried	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 lying	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 club	det
31	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lying	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 lying	aux
33	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 place	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	things = thing			to the house result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
2	take	past	things = thing not said here	all food			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	find	could · passive		all food	the old mother's larder		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	carry back	past	things = thing not said here	food	the place		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to place=Destination
5	lie	past · progressive	the club				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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