The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 18
‘The rich are always envied.’
What happens: envy · To what, where: rich
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 6 envied | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rich | det |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 envied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 envied | aux:pass |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 envied | advmod |
| 6 | envied | envy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 envied | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 envied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | envy | present · passive | the rich | always property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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