The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 59

“My grandson, this gold must be hidden in the earth, for if people think they can get it when they choose, they will become lazy and stupid.

Who acts: people · What happens: hide, think, get, choose, become · To what, where: grandson, earth, gold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 hidden	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 grandson	nmod:poss
3	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hidden	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gold	punct
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grandson	conj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hidden	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 hidden	aux:pass
9	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hidden	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 think	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 think	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 think	mark
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 think	nsubj
17	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hidden	conj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 get	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 get	aux
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 think	ccomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 get	obj
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 choose	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 choose	nsubj
24	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 get	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 become	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 become	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 become	aux
28	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 think	conj
29	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 become	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stupid	cc
31	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lazy	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hidden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide in a quote	must · passive		My grandson and this gold	the earth		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in earth=Location
2	think speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	people				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	get in a quote	can	people	gold			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	choose in a quote	present	people				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	become in a quote	future	people			lazy 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 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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