Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 7

At length he went in to breakfast, and found his wife much perplexed at his delay.

Who acts: teller, wife · What happens: go in, find, perplex · To what, where: length, delay · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teller, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 breakfast	case
7	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 perplexed	nsubj
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 perplexed	advmod
14	perplexed	perplex	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	ccomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 delay	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 delay	nmod:poss
17	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 perplexed	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go in	past	teller	length	to breakfast	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to breakfast=Initial_Location
2	find	past	teller not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	perplex	past	teller's wife	teller's delay		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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