The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 2
The King of the Gold Mines sent such immense sums of money that the whole sea was covered with the ships that brought it.
Who acts: King, ships · What happens: send, cover, bring, sum · To what, where: such immense sums, whole sea, sea, money
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, ships), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Mines | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mines | det |
| 5 | Gold | Gold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mines | compound |
| 6 | Mines | Mines | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sums | amod |
| 9 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sums | amod |
| 10 | sums | sum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sent | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 money | case |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sums | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 covered | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sea | amod |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 covered | aux:pass |
| 18 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 money | acl:relcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 ships | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ships | det |
| 21 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 covered | obl |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 brought | nsubj |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ships | acl:relcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the King of the Gold Mines | such immense sums of money | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | the whole sea | with the ships | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | the ships | sea | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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