The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 27
Only just in time too, for the goblins were close at hand, and looked round eagerly for the stream and the fish.
Who acts: goblins · What happens: be, look round · To what, where: hand
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), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 close | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 close | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 goblins | det |
| 9 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 close | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 close | cop |
| 11 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | parataxis |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 close | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 looked | advmod |
| 18 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 16 looked | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 stream | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stream | det |
| 21 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fish | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fish | det |
| 24 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stream | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the goblins | hand | close property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look round | past | time | for the stream and the fish; eagerly, round property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for stream=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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