The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 30

‘Well, did you find them?’ asked the old man when his goblins came back.

Who acts: you, goblins · What happens: find, ask, come back · To what, where: stream, old man · 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 (you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 find	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 find	nsubj
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	ccomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 find	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 goblins	nmod:poss
16	goblins	goblin	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	advcl
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	you	stream		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past			the old man	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come back	past	man's goblins			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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