The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 70

I had not been long there when I saw three witches coming in with three bags of gold.

Who acts: I, three witches · What happens: have, not be, see, come in · To what, where: three witches

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, three witches), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 there	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 there	cop
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 witches	nummod
11	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 saw	obj
12	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 witches	acl
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 coming	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 bags	case
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 bags	nummod
16	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 coming	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 gold	case
18	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bags	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	I			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle			long, there property	tree rules
3	see	past	I	three witches		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus
4	come in	gerund	three witches not said here		with three bags of gold	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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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