The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 46

Hans wondered to see these vast riches, which might have bought all the kingdoms of the world, and lay buried, useless, he thought, to anyone.

Who acts: Hans, host · What happens: wonder, see, buy, lay, bury, think · To what, where: vast riches

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 (Hans, host), 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	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wondered	nsubj
2	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wondered	xcomp
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 riches	det
6	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 riches	amod
7	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bought	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 bought	nsubj:pass
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 bought	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 bought	aux
12	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 riches	acl:relcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 kingdoms	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kingdoms	det
15	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bought	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kingdoms	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lay	cc
21	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	conj
22	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 lay	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 useless	punct
24	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 buried	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thought	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thought	nsubj
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wondered	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 anyone	punct
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 anyone	case
30	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 thought	vocative
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	Hans			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	to-infinitive	Hans not said here	this vast riches		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rich=Stimulus
3	buy	might · perfect · passive		this vast riches		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary kingdom=Theme
4	lay	infinitive	Hans not said here			tree rules
5	bury	participle	Hans not said here			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	past	host		anyone vocative	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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