The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 93

There were the endless treasure chambers to be gone through, and the hosts of gnomes to be kept to their tasks.

Who acts: endless treasure chambers, hosts · What happens: be, go through, keep, task

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (endless treasure chambers, hosts), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chambers	det
4	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chambers	amod
5	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chambers	compound
6	chambers	chamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 gone	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 gone	aux:pass
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 chambers	acl:relcl
10	through	through	ADV	_	9 gone	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gnomes	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gnomes	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hosts	det
14	hosts	host	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gnomes	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 gnomes	case
16	gnomes	gnome	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 kept	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 kept	aux:pass
19	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 gnomes	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 tasks	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tasks	nmod:poss
22	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 kept	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	the endless treasure chambers	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go through	to-infinitive · passive	the endless treasure chambers not said here		through property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»
3	keep	to-infinitive · passive	the endless treasure chambers not said here		to hosts's tasks	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»
4	task		hosts = host			nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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