The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 32
He reached home that evening tired and dusty, but with hope in his heart.
Who acts: man · What happens: reach
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 (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 reached | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 evening | det |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 reached | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dusty | cc |
| 8 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tired | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hope | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 hope | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 hope | case |
| 12 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hope | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | man | evening | with hope in man's heart; home, tired property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «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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