The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 14
When the beggar knew that Bernez would give him no trouble, he told him how, during that very night, the treasures under the stones would be uncovered, and how in a very few minutes they could take enough to make them both rich for life.
Who acts: beggar, Bernez, treasures · What happens: know, give, tell, uncover, take, make · To what, where: trouble, beggar, treasures · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggar, Bernez, treasures), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 knew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beggar | det |
| 3 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 told | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 give | mark |
| 6 | Bernez | Bernez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 trouble | det |
| 11 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | nsubj |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 uncovered | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 night | punct |
| 18 | during | during | ADP | _ | 21 night | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 night | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 night | advmod |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 uncovered | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 night | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 treasures | det |
| 24 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 uncovered | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 stones | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 stones | det |
| 27 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 treasures | nmod |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 uncovered | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 uncovered | aux:pass |
| 30 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 told | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 take | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 take | cc |
| 33 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 take | advmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 minutes | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 minutes | det |
| 36 | very | very | ADV | _ | 37 few | advmod |
| 37 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 minutes | amod |
| 38 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 take | obl |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 take | nsubj |
| 40 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 take | aux |
| 41 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 told | parataxis |
| 42 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 41 take | advmod |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 make | mark |
| 44 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 take | advcl |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 make | obj |
| 46 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 rich | advmod |
| 47 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 make | xcomp |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 life | case |
| 49 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 rich | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the beggar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | give | would | Bernez | no trouble | beggar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient trouble=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Bernez | beggar | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | uncover | would · passive | the treasures under the stones | night | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | could | treasures = treasure | minute | enough property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | treasures = treasure not said here | treasures = treasure | rich property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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