The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 50
The Goblin laid the tongue on the tub in which were the old newspapers.
Who acts: Goblin · What happens: lay, be · To what, where: tongue, tub, old newspapers
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), 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 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tongue | det |
| 5 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 tub | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tub | det |
| 8 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 newspapers | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 newspapers | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 newspapers | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 newspapers | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 newspapers | amod |
| 14 | newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laid | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | the Goblin | the tongue | the tub | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme on tub=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | the old newspapers | 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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