The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 33
When he went home he found all their former splendour restored, and his wife overjoyed at their good fortune.
Who acts: fisher, wife · What happens: go, find, restore, overjoy · To what, where: former splendour, good fortune
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisher, wife), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 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 | 6 found | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 splendour | det:predet |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 splendour | nmod:poss |
| 9 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 splendour | amod |
| 10 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 11 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 splendour | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 overjoyed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 overjoyed | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 16 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 fortune | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fortune | amod |
| 20 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 overjoyed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | fisher | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | fisher | fish's former splendour | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splendour=Topic | ||||
| 3 | restore | participle | fish's former splendour not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | overjoy | past | fisher's wife | fish's good fortune | tree rules |
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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