The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 65

When the three rogues saw the cooked meats, and the tart in the oven, and heard Nina’s words, they were nearly beside themselves with amazement, and began to consult at once how they were to get the goat into their own possession.

Who acts: three rogues, meats, Nina · What happens: see, cook, hear, be, begin, consult · To what, where: cooked meats, words, goat, own possession

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three rogues, meats, Nina), 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	5 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rogues	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 rogues	nummod
4	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meats	det
7	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 meats	amod
8	meats	meat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tart	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tart	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tart	det
12	tart	tart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 oven	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 oven	det
15	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tart	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 heard	cc
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
19	Nina	Nina	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 words	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Nina	case
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heard	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 themselves	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 themselves	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 themselves	cop
25	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	27 themselves	advmod
26	beside	beside	ADP	_	27 themselves	case
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 heard	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 amazement	case
29	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 began	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 began	cc
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 consult	mark
34	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 once	case
36	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 consult	obl
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	41 get	advmod
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 get	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 get	aux
40	to	to	PART	_	41 get	mark
41	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 consult	advcl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 goat	det
43	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 get	obj
44	into	into	ADP	_	47 possession	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 possession	nmod:poss
46	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 possession	amod
47	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 get	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the three rogues	the cooked meats			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus
2	cook	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	hear	past	the three rogues not said here	Nina's words		with amazement	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	is	past	meats = meat			beside meats = meat; nearly property	tree rules
5	begin	past	the three rogues not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	consult	to-infinitive	the three rogues not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	get	past	meats = meat	the goat	meats's own possession		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goat=Stimulus
8	word		Nina				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
9	possess		meats = meat				nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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