The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 90

Everyone wanted to save his most valuable possession; so did the Goblin, and in a few leaps he was up the stairs and in the student’s room.

Who acts: Everyone, Grocer · What happens: want, save, do, leap, be, possess · To what, where: valuable possession, Goblin

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 (Everyone, Grocer), 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	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 save	mark
4	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 possession	nmod:poss
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 valuable	advmod
7	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 possession	amod
8	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 save	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 did	advmod
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Goblin	det
13	Goblin	Goblin	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 did	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 leaps	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 leaps	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 few	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 few	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 leaps	amod
19	leaps	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	parataxis
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stairs	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stairs	cop
22	up	up	ADP	_	24 stairs	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stairs	det
24	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 leaps	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 room	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 room	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 student	det
28	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 room	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 student	case
30	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stairs	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	Everyone			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	Everyone not said here	Grocer's valuable possession		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
3	do	past	Everyone not said here	the Goblin		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblin=Eventuality
4	leap	present				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	Grocer		up the stairs and the student's room	tree rules
6	possess		Grocer			nom possession «act transitive»: poss=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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