The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 32

When Peter had gone on for a bit with his captives, they met a chimney sweep, who laughed loudly over the extraordinary troop, and asked the girl what she was doing.

Who acts: Peter, captives, chimney sweep, girl · What happens: go on, meet, laugh, ask, do · To what, where: chimney sweep, extraordinary troop, girl

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, captives, chimney sweep, girl), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 gone	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 bit	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 captives	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 captives	nmod:poss
11	captives	captive	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bit	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 met	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 met	nsubj
14	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sweep	det
16	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sweep	compound
17	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 met	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 laughed	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 laughed	nsubj
20	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sweep	acl:relcl
21	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	20 laughed	advmod
22	over	over	ADP	_	25 troop	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 troop	det
24	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 troop	amod
25	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laughed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 asked	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 asked	cc
28	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 met	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 girl	det
30	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 asked	obj
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 doing	obj
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 doing	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 doing	aux
34	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 girl	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past · perfect	Peter				for a bit with Peter's captives	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	captives = captive	a chimney sweep				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweep=Co-Agent
3	laugh	past	a chimney sweep			the extraordinary troop	loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	captives = captive not said here		the girl			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient
5	do	past · progressive	girl	the girl				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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