The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 67

Then he gave them back the eye, and they began to look out once more for the old times coming back again.

Who acts: boy, women, old times · What happens: give back, begin, look out, come back · To what, where: eye, women

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, women, old times), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gave	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eye	det
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 look	compound:prt
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 look	advmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 times	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 times	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 times	amod
20	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 look	obl
21	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 times	acl
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 coming	advmod
23	again	again	ADV	_	21 coming	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give back	past	boy	the eye	women = woman	then	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient eye=Theme
2	begin	past	women = woman				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	look out	to-infinitive	women = woman not said here			time	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	come back	gerund	the old times not said here			again	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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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