The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 82

‘Ah, my dear creatures,’ thought the beggar, who had of course heard everything, ‘you are going to make me richer than the richest men of Vannes or Lorient.

Who acts: beggar, you · What happens: think, hear, go, make · To what, where: everything, me

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggar, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:2303): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	23 going	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 creatures	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 creatures	nmod:poss
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creatures	amod
6	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 going	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 creatures	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 creatures	punct
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 going	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beggar	det
11	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 heard	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
15	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	17 heard	advmod
16	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 of	fixed
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 beggar	acl:relcl
18	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 heard	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 going	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	xcomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 make	xcomp
28	than	than	ADP	_	31 men	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 men	det
30	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 men	amod
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 richer	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Vannes	case
33	Vannes	Vannes	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 men	nmod
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 Lorient	cc
35	Lorient	Lorient	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Vannes	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the beggar			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past · perfect	the beggar	everything		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
3	go	present · progressive	you		my dear creatures vocative	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	me	rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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