The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 47
‘What is the reason,’ he asked of his guide, ‘that you gather up these treasures here, where they can do good to nobody?
Who acts: host, you, Hans · What happens: be, ask, gather up, do · To what, where: reason, treasures, good · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (host, you, Hans), 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 | _ | 5 reason | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 reason | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reason | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reason | det |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reason | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 reason | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 guide | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 guide | nmod:poss |
| 12 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gather | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 gather | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 gather | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 gather | nsubj |
| 17 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 gather | compound:prt |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 treasures | det |
| 20 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gather | obj |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 gather | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 do | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 gather | conj |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 do | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 nobody | case |
| 29 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 do | obl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the reason | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | host | of host's guide | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of guide=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | gather up | present | you | this treasures | here | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||
| 4 | do | can | Hans = han | good | to nobody | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
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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