The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 39
Oh, what riches and treasures met Hans’ astonished eyes!
Who acts: riches · What happens: meet · To what, where: astonished eyes
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (riches), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 met | obj |
| 4 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 met | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 treasures | cc |
| 6 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 riches | conj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 8 Hans | case |
| 10 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 met | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | riches and treasures | Hans's astonished eyes | tree rules |
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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