The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 13

As the dog had discovered a treasure once, this foolish man thought he must be able to discover one always, and begged the old couple to lend him their pet for a little while, so that he might be made rich also.

Who acts: foolish man, man · What happens: discover, think, be, beg, lend, make · To what, where: dog, one, old couple, pet, couple, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foolish man, man), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 discovered	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 discovered	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 discovered	aux
5	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 thought	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 treasure	det
7	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 discovered	obj
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 discovered	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 discovered	punct
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 man	det
11	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 able	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 able	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	cop
17	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thought	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 discover	mark
19	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	xcomp
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 discover	obj
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 discover	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 begged	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 begged	cc
24	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 couple	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 couple	amod
27	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 begged	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 lend	mark
29	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 begged	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lend	obj
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pet	nmod:poss
32	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lend	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	36 while	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 while	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 while	amod
36	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lend	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 made	punct
38	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	43 made	mark
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 so	fixed
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 made	nsubj
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 made	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 made	aux:pass
43	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 begged	conj
44	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 made	xcomp
45	also	also	ADV	_	43 made	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past · perfect · passive		the dog			once property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	this foolish man					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	must	man				able property	tree rules
4	discover	to-infinitive	man not said here	one			always property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
5	beg speech: request	past	this foolish man not said here	the old couple				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent couple=Recipient
6	lend	to-infinitive	this foolish man not said here	people's pet	couple	while		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pet=Theme
7	make	might · passive		man			rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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