English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 46
Now the grand hunting party comes back, and the castle upon the twelve golden pillars had disappeared, to the great disappointment of those gentlemen as did not see it before.
Who acts: grand hunting party · What happens: come back, disappear, not see, disappoint · To what, where: castle, gentlemen
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grand hunting party), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 comes | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 party | det |
| 3 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 party | amod |
| 4 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 party | compound |
| 5 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 comes | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 disappeared | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 disappeared | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disappeared | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 pillars | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pillars | det |
| 14 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 pillars | nummod |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pillars | amod |
| 16 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 castle | nmod |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 disappeared | aux |
| 18 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 comes | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 disappointment | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 disappointment | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 disappointment | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 disappointment | amod |
| 23 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disappeared | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 gentlemen | case |
| 25 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 gentlemen | det |
| 26 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 disappointment | nmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 see | mark |
| 28 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 see | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 see | advmod |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 disappeared | advcl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 see | obj |
| 32 | before | before | ADV | _ | 30 see | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | present | the grand hunting party | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past · perfect · passive | the castle upon the twelve golden pillars | to the great disappointment of that gentlemen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not see | past · do-support | castle | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | disappoint | that gentlemen | nom disappointment «feeling 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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