The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 111
When they came to the spot where he had left it there was no money there; a thief had come along and stolen it.
Who acts: trolls, sackful, money, thief · What happens: come, leave, be, come along, steal · To what, where: spot, money
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trolls, sackful, money, thief), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 spot | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spot | det |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 left | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 left | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | aux |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 spot | acl:relcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 left | obj |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 money | det |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 money | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thief | det |
| 19 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 came | parataxis |
| 22 | along | along | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stolen | cc |
| 24 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 come | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stolen | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | trolls = troll | the spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | sackful | spot | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | no money | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come along | past · perfect | a thief | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | steal | participle | a thief not said here | money | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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