More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 81

Soon as Tom could see again the tiddy creature was gone, and but for the stone on end and the hole at his feet, he'd have thought he'd been dreaming.

Who acts: Tom, tiddy creature · What happens: see, be, think, dream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, tiddy creature), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 see	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 see	mark
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 gone	advcl
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 creature	det
8	tiddy	tiddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 creature	amod
9	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gone	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	cop
11	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 thought	cc
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 thought	cc
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 stone	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stone	det
17	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 thought	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 end	case
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stone	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hole	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hole	det
22	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stone	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 feet	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 feet	nmod:poss
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hole	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stone	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thought	nsubj
28	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 thought	aux
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 thought	aux
30	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 gone	conj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 dreaming	nsubj
32	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 dreaming	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 dreaming	aux
34	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 thought	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	Tom	again	soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the tiddy creature		gone property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	would · perfect	Tom		for the stone on end and the hole at Tom's feet	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	dream	past · perfect · progressive	Tom			vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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