The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 90
In his old age his prosperity was so great that he himself did not know how rich he was; but it was always supposed that the money was Friedlin’s.
Who acts: prosperity, Peter, money · What happens: be, not know, suppose · To what, where: old age, prosperity · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prosperity, Peter, money), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 age | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 age | nmod:poss |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 age | amod |
| 4 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 great | obl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 prosperity | nmod:poss |
| 6 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 great | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 great | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 great | advmod |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 11 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 great | csubj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 rich | advmod |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 know | ccomp |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rich | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rich | cop |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 supposed | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 supposed | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 supposed | aux:pass |
| 24 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 25 supposed | advmod |
| 25 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 great | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 Friedlin | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 money | det |
| 28 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Friedlin | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 Friedlin | cop |
| 30 | Friedlin | Friedlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 supposed | obl |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Friedlin | case |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Peter's prosperity | in Peter's old age | great property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | Peter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Peter | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | suppose | past · passive | prosperity | always property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the money | 's Friedlin | tree rules |
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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