The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 60
After awhile his host came back, but so changed that Hans could not believe it was really he.
Who acts: host, Hans, lump · What happens: come back, change, not believe, be · To what, where: friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (host, Hans, lump), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 awhile | case |
| 2 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 5 came | obl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 host | nmod:poss |
| 4 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 changed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 changed | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 changed | advmod |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 believe | mark |
| 12 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 believe | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 believe | advmod |
| 15 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 changed | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 he | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 he | cop |
| 18 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 he | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 believe | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | friend's host | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | change | past | friend's host not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not believe | could | Hans | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | lump | friend | tree rules |
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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