The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 72

It had read everything that was inside it, on the one side, and was just going to turn itself round and read from the other side when the Goblin came in and returned the tongue to its owner.

Who acts: tub, Goblin · What happens: read, be, go, turn, come in, return · To what, where: everything, one side, jam, tub, other side, 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 (tub, Goblin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:138): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 read	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 it	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 it	cop
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 everything	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 side	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 side	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 side	det
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 side	nummod
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 going	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 going	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 going	advmod
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 read	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 turn	mark
20	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 going	xcomp
21	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 turn	obj
22	round	round	ADV	_	20 turn	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 read	cc
24	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 turn	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	28 side	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 side	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 side	amod
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 read	obl
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 came	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Goblin	det
31	Goblin	Goblin	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 going	advcl
33	in	in	ADV	_	32 came	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 returned	cc
35	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 came	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tongue	det
37	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 returned	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 owner	case
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 owner	nmod:poss
40	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 returned	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	read	past · perfect	tub	everything	the one side		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
2	is	past			jam		tree rules
3	go	past · progressive	tub not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	turn	to-infinitive	tub not said here	tub		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
5	read	infinitive	tub not said here		the other side		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from side=Source
6	come in	past	the Goblin				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	return	past	the Goblin not said here	the tongue	tub's owner		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme to owner=Destination

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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