The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 133
In the secret chamber were found fifty wagon-loads of gold flax, and as much more was discovered buried.
What happens: find, discover, bury · To what, where: fifty wagon loads, secret chamber
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 chamber | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chamber | det |
| 3 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chamber | amod |
| 4 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux:pass |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 loads | nummod |
| 8 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loads | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 wagon | punct |
| 10 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 flax | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flax | compound |
| 13 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loads | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 discovered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 discovered | cc |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 discovered | advmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 discovered | aux:pass |
| 20 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 found | parataxis |
| 21 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 discovered | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | fifty wagon loads of gold flax | the secret chamber | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: load=Topic | ||||
| 2 | discover | past · passive | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | bury | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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