The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 173

But there is a proverb which says that ill-gotten gains never prosper, and the Prince found that the stolen ring brought him ill-luck after all.

Who acts: proverb, gotten gains, Prince, stolen ring · What happens: be, say, get, not prosper, find, steal · To what, where: ill luck, proverb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proverb, gotten gains, Prince, stolen ring), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 is	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 proverb	det
5	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 proverb	acl:relcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 prosper	mark
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gotten	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ill	punct
11	gotten	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 gains	amod
12	gains	gain	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 prosper	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 prosper	advmod
14	prosper	prosper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Prince	det
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 brought	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ring	det
22	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 ring	amod
23	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brought	nsubj
24	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 found	ccomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 brought	obj
26	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 luck	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 ill	punct
28	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brought	obj
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 all	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 brought	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	present	a proverb			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	a proverb					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	participle						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	not prosper	present	gotten gains					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	past	the Prince					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	steal	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	bring	past	the stolen ring	ill luck	proverb		after all	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination luck=Theme

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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