The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 47

When it was night and the shop was shut, and everyone was in bed except the student, the Goblin went upstairs and took the grocer’s wife’s tongue.

Who acts: butter, night, everyone, Goblin · What happens: be, go, take · To what, where: night, bed, tongue

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 (butter, night, everyone, Goblin), 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	9 shut	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 night	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 night	cop
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shut	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shop	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shop	det
7	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 night	conj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shut	cop
9	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bed	cc
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 bed	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bed	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 bed	case
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shut	conj
16	except	except	ADP	_	18 student	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 student	det
18	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bed	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Goblin	det
21	Goblin	Goblin	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shut	parataxis
23	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 went	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grocer	det
27	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wife	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 grocer	case
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tongue	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 wife	case
31	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	butter	night and the shop			tree rules
2	is	past	night and the shop			shut property	tree rules
3	is	past	everyone		bed	except the student	tree rules
4	go	past	the Goblin			upstairs property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	past	the Goblin not said here	the grocer's wife's tongue			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=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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