The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 26

Then he went straight to his father, and found him sitting in his verandah with his five sons round him; and the lad bowed his head.

Who acts: storm, lad · What happens: go, find, sit, bow · To what, where: storm, verandah, head

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm, lad), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 father	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 father	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	obj
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 found	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 verandah	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 verandah	nmod:poss
15	verandah	verandah	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 sons	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sons	nmod:poss
18	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 sons	nummod
19	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sitting	obl
20	round	round	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sons	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 bowed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bowed	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lad	det
25	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bowed	nsubj
26	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bowed	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	storm			then	to storm's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
2	find	past	storm not said here	storm				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
3	sit	gerund	storm not said here		storm's verandah		with storm's five sons round storm	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in verandah=Location
4	bow	past	the lad	storm's head				vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic

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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