The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 48
The next moment a crowd of goblins rushed up, and looked about in search of something strange, for neither a rose bush nor anything else was to be seen.
Who acts: next moment · What happens: rush up, look, see, search · To what, where: goblins, rose bush, something
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 (next moment), 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 | 3 moment | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moment | amod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crowd | det |
| 5 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moment | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 goblins | case |
| 7 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 crowd | nmod |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 goblins | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 rushed | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 search | case |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 search | case |
| 15 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 something | case |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 search | nmod |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 something | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bush | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 bush | case |
| 21 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 bush | cc:preconj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bush | det |
| 23 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bush | compound |
| 24 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 anything | cc |
| 26 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 bush | conj |
| 27 | else | else | ADV | _ | 26 anything | advmod |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 seen | aux:pass |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 seen | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 seen | aux:pass |
| 31 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 looked | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush up | participle | goblins not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the next moment and a crowd of goblins | about search of something | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | a rose bush | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | search | something | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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