The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 82

On their way home, as they were again passing the heath, they surprised the dwarf pouring out his precious stones on an open space, for he had thought no one would pass by at so late an hour.

Who acts: girls, dwarf, man, one · What happens: pass, surprise, pour out, think, pass by · To what, where: heath, dwarf, way, precious stones, open space · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, dwarf, man, one), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 way	nmod:poss
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 surprised	obl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 way	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 passing	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 passing	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 passing	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 passing	aux
9	again	again	ADV	_	10 passing	advmod
10	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 way	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 heath	det
12	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 way	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 surprised	nsubj
15	surprised	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dwarf	det
17	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 surprised	obj
18	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 dwarf	acl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 pouring	compound:prt
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 stones	nmod:poss
21	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stones	amod
22	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pouring	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 space	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 space	det
25	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 space	amod
26	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pouring	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thought	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 thought	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thought	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 thought	aux
31	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 surprised	conj
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pass	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 pass	aux
35	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 thought	ccomp
36	by	by	ADP	_	35 pass	obl
37	at	at	ADP	_	41 hour	case
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 late	advmod
39	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 hour	advmod
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 hour	det
41	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pass	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pass	past · progressive	girls = girl	the heath		again	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heath=Trajectory
2	surprise	past	girls = girl	the dwarf	girls's way		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dwarf=Experiencer
3	pour out	gerund	the dwarf not said here	man's precious stones	a open space		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
4	think speech: other	past · perfect	man				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	pass by	would	no one			hour	vn occur-48.3-1 «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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