The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 23
‘There, mother, I have brought you the gold that my father lost.’
Who acts: father · What happens: bring, lose · To what, where: mother, gold
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | _ | 8 brought | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 brought | expl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 brought | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | aux |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 brought | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gold | det |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lost | obj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lost | nsubj |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gold | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · perfect · passive | mother | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | my father | the gold | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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