The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 32
And glad he was when the evening came, and he could return home.
Who acts: man, evening · What happens: be, come, return
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, evening), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 glad | cc |
| 2 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 glad | ccomp |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 evening | det |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 was | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 return | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 return | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 return | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 return | aux |
| 13 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 glad | advcl |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 return | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | return | could | man | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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