The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 132
When they came to the spot there had again been a thief there and taken the money.
Who acts: daughters · What happens: come, have, be, take · To what, where: spot, thief, 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 (daughters), 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 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 spot | advmod |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 there | parataxis |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 thief | advmod |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 thief | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thief | det |
| 12 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | xcomp |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 thief | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 taken | cc |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 thief | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 money | det |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | daughters = daughter | the spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | participle | a thief | there | again | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take | participle | the money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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