The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 59

They came at last to the house where this candle was, not without an abundance of fear: for very often they lost sight of it, which happened every time they came into a bottom.

Who acts: brothers, candle · What happens: come, not be, lose, happen, sight · To what, where: last, sight, time, bottom, candle

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, candle), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 abundance	advmod
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 candle	det
10	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 abundance	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 abundance	cop
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 abundance	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 abundance	advmod
14	without	without	ADP	_	16 abundance	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 abundance	det
16	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 fear	case
18	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 abundance	nmod
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 lost	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 often	case
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 often	advmod
22	often	often	ADV	_	24 lost	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lost	nsubj
24	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
25	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lost	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sight	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 happened	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 happened	nsubj
30	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lost	conj
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 happened	obl:unmarked
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 came	nsubj
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 time	acl:relcl
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 bottom	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bottom	det
37	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	brothers = brother		last		to the house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	not is	past	this candle				without a abundance; of fear	tree rules
3	lose	past	brothers = brother	sight of candle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
4	happen	past				time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	brothers = brother	every time not said here	a bottom			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
6	sight			candle				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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