The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 72
‘We found the treasure together, and together we will spend it.’
Who acts: We · What happens: find, spend · To what, where: treasure
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | _ | 3 found | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 treasure | det |
| 5 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 found | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spend | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spend | cc |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 spend | advmod |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 spend | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 spend | aux |
| 12 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 found | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spend | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | We | the treasure | together property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic | |||
| 2 | spend | future | we | treasure | together property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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