The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 86
Not long after the old man came back with a mould full of clay on his shoulders, and a little covered basket in his left hand.
Who acts: old man · What happens: come back, cover · To what, where: little covered basket
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 came | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 man | case |
| 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 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 mould | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mould | det |
| 11 | mould | mould | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mould | amod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 clay | case |
| 14 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 full | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 shoulders | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 clay | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 basket | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 basket | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 basket | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 basket | amod |
| 22 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 basket | amod |
| 23 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hand | amod |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 basket | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the old man | a little covered basket in man's left hand | with a mould; long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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