The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 16

First with one hand, and then with two, did the King try to seize it, but like a fish the goblet always slipped through his fingers and bobbed to the ground only to reappear at some other place, and mock the King.

Who acts: two, goblet · What happens: do, seize, slip, bob, reappear, mock · To what, where: King try, try, fingers, ground, other place, King

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, goblet), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 hand	advmod
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 hand	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hand	nummod
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 did	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 two	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 two	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 did	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 two	punct
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hand	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 try	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 try	compound
14	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 did	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 seize	mark
16	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 try	acl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seize	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 slipped	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 slipped	cc
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 fish	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fish	det
22	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slipped	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 goblet	det
24	goblet	goblet	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slipped	nsubj
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 slipped	advmod
26	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 did	parataxis
27	through	through	ADP	_	29 fingers	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 fingers	nmod:poss
29	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 slipped	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bobbed	cc
31	bobbed	bob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 fingers	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 ground	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ground	det
34	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bobbed	obl
35	only	only	ADV	_	37 reappear	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 reappear	mark
37	reappear	reappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 bobbed	advcl
38	at	at	ADP	_	41 place	case
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 place	det
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 place	amod
41	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 reappear	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 mock	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 mock	cc
44	mock	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 slipped	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 King	det
46	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 mock	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	two	the King try				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent try=Eventuality
2	seize	to-infinitive	two not said here	try				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	slip	past	the goblet			KING's fingers	like a fish; always property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	bob	participle	the goblet not said here		the ground			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ground=Recipient
5	reappear	to-infinitive	the goblet not said here			some other place		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at place=Location
6	mock	infinitive	the goblet not said here	the King				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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 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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