The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 115
Now in the mountain dwelt a spirit which now and then appeared to men, and helped them in many ways to become rich and prosperous.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: dwell, appear, help, become · To what, where: spirit, mountain, men, many ways
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit), 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 | 5 dwelt | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 mountain | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mountain | det |
| 4 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dwelt | obl |
| 5 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spirit | det |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dwelt | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 appeared | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 appeared | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 appeared | advmod |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spirit | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 appeared | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 helped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 helped | cc |
| 17 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dwelt | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 helped | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 ways | case |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ways | amod |
| 21 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 helped | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 become | mark |
| 23 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 helped | advcl |
| 24 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 become | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 prosperous | cc |
| 26 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rich | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | a spirit | the mountain | now | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme spirit=Location | |||
| 2 | appear | past | a spirit | now; then | to men | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | help | past | men = man | many ways | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | become | to-infinitive | rich property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: «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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