The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 25
Not very long after Hatschihime had become maid to the sick woman, the eldest son of the house returned home from Kioto, where he had been studying all sorts of things.
Who acts: Hatschihime, eldest son, son · What happens: become, return, study, sort · To what, where: maid, Kioto, sorts, things
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hatschihime, eldest son, son), 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 | 3 long | advmod |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 returned | advmod |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 become | mark |
| 5 | Hatschihime | Hatschihime | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 become | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 become | aux |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 long | advcl |
| 8 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 become | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 woman | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maid | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 son | det |
| 15 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 son | amod |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 returned | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod |
| 20 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 returned | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Kioto | case |
| 23 | Kioto | Kioto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 returned | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 studying | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 studying | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 studying | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 studying | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 studying | aux |
| 29 | studying | study | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 returned | advcl |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 sorts | det |
| 31 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 studying | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 things | case |
| 33 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 sorts | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · perfect | Hatschihime | maid to the sick woman | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the eldest son of the house | Kioto | home, long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from kioto=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | study | past · perfect · progressive | son | all sorts of things | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sort | things | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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