The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 54

It is my task and that of my workmen to prepare under the earth the gold and silver, a small portion of which finds its way every year to the upper world, but only just enough to help them carry on their business.

Who acts: world, small portion, workmen · What happens: be, prepare, find, help, carry · To what, where: task, earth, way, workmen, business

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 (world, small portion, workmen), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 task	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 task	cop
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 task	nmod:poss
4	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 that	cc
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 task	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 workmen	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 workmen	nmod:poss
9	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 that	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 prepare	mark
11	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 workmen	acl
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earth	det
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 prepare	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gold	det
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 earth	appos
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 silver	cc
18	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gold	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 portion	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 portion	det
21	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 portion	amod
22	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gold	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 finds	nsubj
25	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 portion	acl:relcl
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 way	nmod:poss
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 finds	obj
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 year	det
29	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 finds	obl:unmarked
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
32	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 world	amod
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 finds	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 help	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 help	cc
36	only	only	ADV	_	38 enough	advmod
37	just	just	ADV	_	38 enough	advmod
38	enough	enough	ADV	_	40 help	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 help	mark
40	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 task	parataxis
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 help	obj
42	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 help	xcomp
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 business	case
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 business	nmod:poss
45	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 carry	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 task	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	world	my task			that nmod	tree rules
2	prepare	to-infinitive	world not said here		the earth			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	find	present	a small portion	world's way		year	to the upper world	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
4	help	to-infinitive		workmen = workman			enough property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	carry	infinitive	workmen = workman not said here		workmen's business			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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