The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 92

The Goblin seized the book lying on the table, put it in his red cap, and clasped it with both hands.

Who acts: Goblin, book · What happens: seize, lie, put, clasp · To what, where: book, table, red cap

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, book), 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 seized	nsubj
3	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obj
6	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 book	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seized	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 put	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 cap	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cap	nmod:poss
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cap	amod
16	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 clasped	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 clasped	cc
19	clasped	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 clasped	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 hands	case
22	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 hands	det
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 clasped	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the Goblin	the book			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
2	lie	gerund	the book not said here		the table		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location
3	put	infinitive	the Goblin not said here	book	Grocer's red cap		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cap=Destination
4	clasp	past	the Goblin not said here	book		with both hands	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hand=Instrument

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/2/92/