The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 58

He bade Hans come with him, but, as the town was only a few hours’ ride from where he lived, the minister was much surprised to see Hans come forth laden with a bag containing food.

Who acts: minister, Hans, bag · What happens: come, be, live, see, lade, contain · To what, where: hours ride, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (minister, Hans, bag), 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	4 come	nsubj
2	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Hans	compound
3	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 He	conj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ride	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 ride	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 but	punct
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 town	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ride	obl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ride	cop
14	only	only	ADV	_	17 hours	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hours	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hours	amod
17	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ride	compound
18	’	's	PART	_	17 hours	case
19	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	parataxis
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 where	case
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 lived	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lived	nsubj
23	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ride	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 surprised	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 minister	det
26	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 surprised	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 surprised	cop
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 surprised	advmod
29	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ride	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 surprised	advcl
32	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 come	nsubj
33	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 see	ccomp
34	forth	forth	ADV	_	33 come	advmod
35	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 come	advcl
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 bag	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bag	det
38	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 laden	obl
39	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 bag	acl
40	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 containing	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	minister		with agreement	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		hours ride	as the town	tree rules
3	live	past	minister			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the minister		surprised property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive	the minister not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	come	present	Hans		forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	lade	participle	Hans not said here		with a bag	tree rules
8	contain	gerund	a bag not said here	food		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot food=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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