The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 52

Hans stared at these words, and at last he begged that his host would tell him what use it was to anybody that this gold and silver should lie mouldering there, and the owner of it be continually trying to increase his treasure, which already overflowed his store rooms.

Who acts: Hans, man, host, world, gold, owner · What happens: stare, beg, tell, use, be, lie · To what, where: last, man, treasure, store rooms · 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 (Hans, man, host, world), 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 stared	nsubj
2	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 words	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 words	det
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stared	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 begged	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 begged	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begged	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 begged	nsubj
11	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stared	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 tell	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 host	nmod:poss
14	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 begged	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 use	nsubj
19	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	ccomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 anybody	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 anybody	cop
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 anybody	case
23	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 use	obj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 lie	mark
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 gold	det
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lie	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 silver	cc
28	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gold	conj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 lie	aux
30	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 anybody	acl
31	mouldering	moulder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 lie	xcomp
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 mouldering	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 trying	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 trying	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 owner	det
36	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 trying	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 owner	nmod
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 trying	cop
40	continually	continually	ADV	_	41 trying	advmod
41	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stared	advcl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 increase	mark
43	increase	increase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 trying	xcomp
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 treasure	nmod:poss
45	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 increase	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 overflowed	punct
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 overflowed	nsubj
48	already	already	ADV	_	49 overflowed	advmod
49	overflowed	overflow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 treasure	acl:relcl
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 rooms	nmod:poss
51	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 rooms	compound
52	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 overflowed	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stare	past	Hans				at this words	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at word=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	man			last		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	would	man's host		man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	use	present						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	world				to anybody	tree rules
6	lie	should	this gold and silver					tree rules
7	moulder	gerund	this gold and silver not said here			there		tree rules
8	is	infinitive	the owner of world				continually, try property	tree rules
9	increase not said to happen	to-infinitive	the owner of world not said here	man's treasure				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer treasure=Patient
10	overflow	past	man's treasure	man's store rooms				tree rules
11	treasure		man					nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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