The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 55
To none comes wealth without trouble: we must first dig out the gold and mix the grains with earth, clay, and sand.
Who acts: none, we · What happens: come, dig out, mix · To what, where: wealth, gold, grains
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 (none, we), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 none | case |
| 2 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obj |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 trouble | case |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 dig | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 dig | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 dig | aux |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 dig | advmod |
| 11 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comes | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 dig | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gold | det |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dig | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mix | cc |
| 16 | mix | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dig | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grains | det |
| 18 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 mix | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 earth | case |
| 20 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mix | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 clay | punct |
| 22 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 earth | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sand | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sand | cc |
| 25 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dig | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | none | wealth | without trouble | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wealth=Theme | |||
| 2 | dig out | must | we | the gold | first property | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | |||
| 3 | mix | infinitive | we not said here | the grains | with earth and clay | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent grain=Patient with earth=Co-Patient |
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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