The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 14
When the goblins, tired and with empty hands, returned, their master inquired what they had seen, and if nothing strange had befallen them.
Who acts: empty hands, master, brook · What happens: return, inquire, see, befall · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (empty hands, master, brook), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 tired | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goblins | det |
| 3 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tired | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tired | punct |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 returned | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hands | case |
| 8 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hands | amod |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hands | punct |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 inquired | punct |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 master | nmod:poss |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inquired | nsubj |
| 15 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 seen | obj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 inquired | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 befallen | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 befallen | cc |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 befallen | mark |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 nothing | amod |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 befallen | aux |
| 26 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 seen | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 befallen | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | empty hands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | brook's master | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | brook | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | befall a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | nothing | tree rules |
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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