The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 90
And so, greatly comforted, he returned to the Court of his father, and arrived home just at the same time as his brothers with their caravans.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: comfort, return, arrive
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 comforted | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 comforted | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 comforted | punct |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 comforted | advmod |
| 5 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 returned | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 comforted | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 returned | nsubj |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Court | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Court | det |
| 11 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 father | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Court | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 arrived | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 arrived | cc |
| 17 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 returned | conj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 arrived | advmod |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 time | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arrived | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 brothers | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 26 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 time | nmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 caravans | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 caravans | nmod:poss |
| 29 | caravans | caravan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 brothers | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | participle | Prince not said here | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | return | past | Prince | to the Court of Prince's father result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to court=Result | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | Prince not said here | time | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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