The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 74
But the Goblin could no longer sit quietly listening to the wisdom and intellect downstairs.
Who acts: Goblin · What happens: sit, listen
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 sit | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Goblin | det |
| 3 | Goblin | Goblin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sit | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sit | aux |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 sit | advmod |
| 7 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 7 sit | advmod |
| 9 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sit | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 wisdom | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wisdom | det |
| 12 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 listening | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 intellect | cc |
| 14 | intellect | intellect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wisdom | conj |
| 15 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 9 listening | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | could | the Goblin | long, quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | listen | gerund | the Goblin not said here | to the wisdom and intellect; downstairs property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wisdom=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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