The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 87

The old man laughed as he heard this answer, and said: “But I do not exactly see where your riches are to come from if you do not work for them.

Who acts: old man, man, riches, you · What happens: laugh, hear, say, not see, be, not work · To what, where: answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man, riches, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 heard	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	advcl
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 answer	det
9	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
15	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 see	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 see	advmod
19	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	20 see	advmod
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 come	advmod
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 riches	nmod:poss
23	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 come	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 come	cop
25	to	to	PART	_	26 come	mark
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 see	ccomp
27	from	from	ADP	_	26 come	obl
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 work	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 work	nsubj
30	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 work	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 work	advmod
32	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 come	advcl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 work	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the old man			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	man	this answer		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the old man not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not see in a quote	present · do-support	the old man = man		exactly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	is in a quote	present	your riches		come property	tree rules
6	not work a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	you		for riches = rich	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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