The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 12
The goblins arrived just after, but, seeing nobody, waited for a little, then hurried home, leaving the brook and the fish undisturbed.
Who acts: goblins, seeing · What happens: arrive, see, wait, hurry, leave · To what, where: nobody, brook
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goblins, seeing), 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 goblins | det |
| 2 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 after | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | ADV | _ | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waited | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 waited | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seeing | punct |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 waited | csubj |
| 10 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 seeing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seeing | punct |
| 12 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrived | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 little | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 little | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 waited | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hurried | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 hurried | advmod |
| 18 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrived | conj |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 hurried | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leaving | punct |
| 21 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 hurried | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 brook | det |
| 23 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leaving | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fish | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fish | det |
| 26 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brook | conj |
| 27 | undisturbed | undisturbed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 leaving | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the goblins | after property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nobody=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | wait | past | seeing | for a little | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hurry | past | the goblins not said here | then | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | leave | gerund | the goblins not said here | the brook and the fish | undisturbed property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brook=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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