The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 191

But when dinner-time came, and the boy did not return, his father and mother knew that he would never come back, and they sat down and wept all day.

Who acts: dinner time, boy, father, boys · What happens: come, not return, know, not come back, sit down, weep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner time, boy, father, boys), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 knew	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 dinner	punct
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 knew	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 return	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 return	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 return	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 return	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 return	advmod
13	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knew	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mother	cc
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 father	conj
19	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 come	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 come	advmod
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 knew	ccomp
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sat	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sat	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sat	nsubj
29	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 knew	parataxis
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 sat	compound:prt
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wept	cc
32	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sat	conj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 day	det
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wept	obl:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	come	past	dinner time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not return	past · do-support	the boy		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	past	delay's father and mother		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not come back	would	father		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit down	past	boys = boy		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	weep	past	boys = boy not said here	day	vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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