English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 66

Tradition had long located a goblin in its centre, but it was not till 1861 that it was discovered to be pierced by a long passage 53 feet in length, and only two feet four inches high, for half of its length.

Who acts: goblin, long passage · What happens: locate, not be, discover, pierce · To what, where: Tradition, goblin

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goblin, long passage), 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	Tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 located	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 located	aux
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 located	advmod
4	located	locate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 goblin	det
6	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 located	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 centre	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 centre	nmod:poss
9	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goblin	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 1861	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 1861	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 1861	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 1861	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 1861	advmod
15	till	till	ADP	_	16 1861	case
16	1861	1861	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 located	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 discovered	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 discovered	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 discovered	aux:pass
20	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 1861	acl
21	to	to	PART	_	23 pierced	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 pierced	aux:pass
23	pierced	pierce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 discovered	xcomp
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 passage	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 passage	det
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 passage	amod
27	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pierced	obl
28	53	53	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 feet	nummod
29	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 passage	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 length	case
31	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 passage	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 high	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 high	cc
34	only	only	ADV	_	35 two	advmod
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 feet	nummod
36	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 high	obl:unmarked
37	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 inches	nummod
38	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 high	obl:unmarked
39	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 discovered	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 half	punct
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 half	case
42	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	39 high	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 length	case
44	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 length	nmod:poss
45	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 half	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 located	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	locate	past · perfect · passive		Tradition		long property	tree rules
2	not is	past	goblin		till 1861		tree rules
3	discover	past · passive		goblin			tree rules
4	pierce	to-infinitive · passive	a long passage in length and 53 feet				vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «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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