The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 32
At the sight of all this gold the hearts of the old people were glad, and once more they blessed their faithful dog.
Who acts: hearts, people · What happens: be, bless, sight · To what, where: sight, faithful dog, gold
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 (hearts, people), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glad | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 gold | det:predet |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 gold | det |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sight | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hearts | det |
| 9 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 glad | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hearts | nmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 glad | cop |
| 15 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 blessed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 blessed | cc |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 blessed | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 blessed | nsubj |
| 21 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 glad | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 dog | nmod:poss |
| 23 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dog | amod |
| 24 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blessed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the hearts of the old people | the sight of all gold | glad property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bless | past | people | people's faithful dog | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sight | all gold | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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