The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 19

He collected a heap of gold, but at last he thought to himself, ‘What good is all my gold to me if I stay at home?

Who acts: Hunter, I · What happens: collect, think, be, stay · To what, where: heap, Hunter, last, good gold, me, home

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 collected	nsubj
2	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 heap	det
4	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 collected	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 gold	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heap	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 collected	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 thought	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gold	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 gold	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 gold	nsubj
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gold	amod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 gold	cop
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 gold	det:predet
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 gold	nmod:poss
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 gold	nmod
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 stay	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 stay	nsubj
27	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 gold	advcl
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 home	case
29	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stay	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	collect	past	Hunter	a heap of gold			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	Hunter		Hunter	last	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		my good gold	me		tree rules
4	stay a condition, not said to happen	present	I			home	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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