The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 113

He hadn’t to search long, for the unicorn soon passed by, and, on perceiving the tailor, dashed straight at him as though it were going to spike him on the spot.

Who acts: unicorn, wood · What happens: not have, search, pass by, perceive, dash, go · To what, where: unicorn, tailor, spot

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unicorn, wood), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 had	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 search	mark
5	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 search	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 unicorn	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 unicorn	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 unicorn	det
10	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 search	obl
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 passed	advmod
12	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 unicorn	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	12 passed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dashed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dashed	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	on	on	SCONJ	_	18 perceiving	mark
18	perceiving	perceive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 dashed	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tailor	det
20	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 perceiving	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 perceiving	punct
22	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
23	straight	straight	ADV	_	25 him	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dashed	obl
26	as	as	ADV	_	30 going	advmod
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 going	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 going	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 going	aux
30	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 dashed	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 spike	mark
32	spike	spike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 going	xcomp
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 spike	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 spot	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 spot	det
36	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spike	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not have	past	unicorn				tree rules
2	search	to-infinitive	unicorn not said here			for the unicorn; long property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for unicorn=Theme
3	pass by	participle		the unicorn not said here		soon property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	perceive	gerund		the tailor			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tailor=Stimulus
5	dash	participle				at unicorn	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory
6	go	past · progressive	wood				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	spike	to-infinitive	wood not said here	unicorn	the spot		tree rules

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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