The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 62

Down this hole she poured all the gold, and when it was out of sight it ran about all over the world, where people that dig hard sometimes find it.

Who acts: hole, gold, people · What happens: pour, be, run about, dig, find · To what, where: gold, sight, world

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 (hole, gold, 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	Down	down	ADV	_	5 poured	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 hole	det
3	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poured	nsubj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poured	nsubj
5	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 gold	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gold	det
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poured	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ran	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ran	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 sight	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sight	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sight	cop
14	out	out	ADP	_	16 sight	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 sight	case
16	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ran	obl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ran	nsubj
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poured	conj
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 all	advmod
20	all	all	ADV	_	23 world	advmod
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ran	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 find	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 find	advmod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 find	nsubj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 dig	nsubj
28	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 people	acl:relcl
29	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dig	xcomp
30	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 find	advmod
31	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 world	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 find	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 poured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pour	past	this hole	all gold		down property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient
2	is	past	gold		sight		tree rules
3	run about	past	gold		the world		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Trajectory
4	dig	present	people			hard property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	find	present	people	gold		sometimes property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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