The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 81
Then they all returned to their cave in the forest, delighted with their new purchase, and longing for a chance of trying its powers.
Who acts: robbers, chance · What happens: return, long, try, purchase · To what, where: powers
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers, chance), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 returned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 they | det |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 cave | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cave | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cave | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 delighted | punct |
| 12 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 forest | amod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 purchase | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 purchase | nmod:poss |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 purchase | amod |
| 16 | purchase | purchase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 delighted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 longing | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 longing | cc |
| 19 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 returned | advcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 chance | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 chance | det |
| 22 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 longing | obl |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 trying | mark |
| 24 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 chance | acl |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 powers | nmod:poss |
| 26 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 trying | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | robbers = robber | then | to robbers's cave in the forest result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cave=Result | |||
| 2 | long | gerund | robbers = robber not said here | for a chance | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for chance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | gerund | a chance not said here | chance's powers | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | purchase | robbers = robber | nom purchase «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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