The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 49

‘And it is exactly for that reason,’ answered he, ‘that I must keep these riches out of their way.

Who acts: hunger, reason, I · What happens: be, answer, keep · To what, where: work, riches, way

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 (hunger, reason, I), 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	_	11 answered	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 reason	cc
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reason	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 reason	cop
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 reason	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 reason	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 reason	det
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 keep	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 keep	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 keep	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 keep	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 keep	aux
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answered	conj
19	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 riches	det
20	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 keep	obj
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 way	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 way	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 way	nmod:poss
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	hunger				for that reason; exactly property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	that reason		work			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
3	keep	must	I	this riches		Hans's way		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rich=Theme out way=Location

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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