The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 88

When the former got home his father said, ‘I knew you had delivered your brother, for all of a sudden the golden lily reared itself up and burst into blossom.’

Who acts: former, father, I · What happens: get, say, know, deliver, rear up, burst · To what, where: you, shape, blossom · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (former, father, I), 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	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 former	det
3	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 delivered	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 delivered	aux
15	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 knew	ccomp
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brother	nmod:poss
17	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 delivered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reared	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 reared	advmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	26 lily	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 lily	det
23	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lily	amod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lily	det
25	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lily	amod
26	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 all	nmod
27	reared	rear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 knew	conj
28	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 reared	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 reared	compound:prt
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 burst	cc
31	burst	burst	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 reared	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 blossom	case
33	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 burst	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	the former			home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	son's father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	past	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	deliver	past · perfect · passive		you			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary brother=Patient
5	rear up	past	I not said here	shape			vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
6	burst	participle	I not said here		blossom		vn appear-48.1.1 «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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