The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 58

There was a light burning, and the Goblin peeped through the key-hole and saw that he was reading the torn book that he had bought in the shop.

Who acts: light, Goblin · What happens: be, burn, peep, see, read, tear · To what, where: torn book, shop

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 (light, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 light	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 light	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 peeped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 peeped	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Goblin	det
9	Goblin	Goblin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 peeped	nsubj
10	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
11	through	through	ADP	_	15 hole	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hole	det
13	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hole	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 key	punct
15	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 peeped	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 peeped	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 reading	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 reading	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 reading	aux
21	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 saw	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 book	det
23	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 book	amod
24	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reading	obj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 bought	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bought	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bought	aux
28	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 book	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 shop	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 shop	det
31	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bought	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a light		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burn	gerund	a light not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	peep	past	the Goblin			through the key hole	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through hole=Theme
4	see	past	the Goblin not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	read	past · progressive	light	the torn book			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
6	tear	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	buy	past · perfect	light	the torn book not said here	the shop		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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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