The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 89

He carefully read the two mottoes and said: “The last few days have shown me how uncertain is happiness and how easily riches vanish away.

Who acts: king, riches · What happens: read, say, show, be, vanish away · To what, where: two mottoes, last few days, uncertain happiness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, riches), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
2	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 read	advmod
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mottoes	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 mottoes	nummod
6	mottoes	motto	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 read	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 shown	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 shown	punct
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 days	det
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 days	amod
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 days	amod
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shown	nsubj:pass
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 shown	aux
16	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 shown	obj
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 uncertain	advmod
19	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 happiness	amod
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 happiness	cop
21	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shown	obl:unmarked
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 vanish	cc
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 easily	advmod
24	easily	easily	ADV	_	26 vanish	advmod
25	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 vanish	nsubj
26	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 shown	conj
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 vanish	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	past	king	the two mottoes	carefully property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motto=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	king not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	show in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the last few days		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present		uncertain happiness		tree rules
5	vanish away in a quote	present	riches		away, easily property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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