The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 152

When they came to the spot they found only the wooden shoes, for a thief had come along in the meantime and taken all the money.

Who acts: sacks, thief · What happens: come, find, come along, take · To what, where: spot, wooden shoes, meantime, 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 (sacks, 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	8 found	advcl
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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 shoes	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shoes	det
11	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shoes	amod
12	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 found	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 thief	det
16	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 found	parataxis
19	along	along	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 meantime	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 meantime	det
22	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 taken	cc
24	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 come	conj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 money	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 money	det
27	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 taken	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	sacks = sack		the spot		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location
2	find	past	sacks = sack	the wooden shoes			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Topic
3	come along	past · perfect	a thief		the meantime	along property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Location
4	take	participle	a thief not said here	all 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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