The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 49

But only one thing at a time could use it, and that was a good thing, or they would have all spoken together.

Who acts: one thing, that, Goblin, all · What happens: use, be, have, speak · To what, where: butter, good thing, all · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one thing, that, Goblin, all), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 use	cc
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 one	advmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 thing	nummod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thing	nmod
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 use	aux
9	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 use	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thing	cc
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 thing	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thing	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 thing	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 have	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thing	parataxis
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 have	obj
24	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 have	xcomp
25	together	together	ADV	_	24 spoken	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	could	one thing at a time	butter		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is a	past	that	a good thing		tree rules
3	have	would	Goblin	all		tree rules
4	speak speech: other	participle	all not said here		together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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