The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 32

The Goblin belonged to him, for every Christmas Eve there was waiting for him at the grocer’s a dish of jam with a large lump of butter in the middle.

Who acts: Goblin, waiting · What happens: belong, be, wait · To what, where: Grocer, dish

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goblin, waiting), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Goblin	det
2	Goblin	Goblin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 belonged	nsubj
3	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 belonged	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Eve	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 Eve	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 Eve	det
9	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Eve	compound
10	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 belonged	obl
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 belonged	parataxis
13	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 dish	csubj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 waiting	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 grocer	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 grocer	det
18	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waiting	obl
19	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 dish	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dish	det
21	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belonged	parataxis
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 jam	case
23	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dish	nmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 lump	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 lump	det
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lump	amod
27	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dish	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 butter	case
29	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lump	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 middle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 middle	det
32	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 butter	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 belonged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	belong	past	the Goblin		Grocer		for every Christmas Eve	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	be	past				there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wait	gerund				the grocer	for Grocer	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at grocer=Location
4	is a	present	waiting	a dish			of jam; with a large lump of butter in the middle	tree rules

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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