The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 118

He lost no time in hastening back to his native town, and his parents were very ready to recognise the handsome, well-made young man as their long-lost son.

Who acts: Jem, time, parents · What happens: lose, hasten back, be, recognise, make · To what, where: native town, handsome, young man

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jem, time, parents), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 hastening	mark
6	hastening	hasten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 time	acl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 hastening	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 town	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 town	nmod:poss
10	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 town	amod
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hastening	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ready	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ready	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 parents	nmod:poss
15	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ready	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ready	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 ready	advmod
18	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lost	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 recognise	mark
20	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ready	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 handsome	det
22	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 recognise	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 made	advmod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 well	punct
26	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 recognise	advcl
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obj
29	as	as	ADP	_	34 son	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 son	nmod:poss
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 son	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 long	punct
33	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 son	amod
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 man	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Jem			time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hasten back	gerund	no time not said here		Jem's native town			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to town=Destination
3	is	past	Jem's parents				ready property	tree rules
4	recognise	to-infinitive	Jem's parents not said here	the handsome				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer handsome=Stimulus
5	make	participle	Jem's parents not said here	young man			as parents's long lost son; well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product
6	lose	participle						vn succeed-74-3-1 «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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