More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 110

But when she looked at it, it wasn't a pot of gold at all, but a great lump of shining silver!

Who acts: weight, treasure, great lump · What happens: look, not be, shine · To what, where: pot, all, silver

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weight, treasure, great lump), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 looked	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 looked	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pot	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pot	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pot	cop
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 pot	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pot	det
12	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 gold	case
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pot	nmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 pot	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lump	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 lump	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lump	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lump	amod
21	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	parataxis
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 shining	mark
23	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 lump	acl
24	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shining	obj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	weight			at treasure	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	not is a	past	treasure	a pot	all	of gold	tree rules
3	shine	gerund	a great lump not said here	silver			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silver=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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