The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 56
Then, after long and hard seeking, it will be found in this state, by those who have good luck or much patience.
Who acts: those · What happens: find, have · To what, where: seeking, state, good luck
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 (those), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 found | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 seeking | case |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seeking | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hard | cc |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 long | conj |
| 7 | seeking | seeking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seeking | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 found | aux:pass |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 state | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 state | det |
| 15 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 those | punct |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 those | case |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 found | obl |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 those | acl:relcl |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 luck | amod |
| 22 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 patience | cc |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 patience | amod |
| 25 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 luck | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future · passive | those | seeking | this state | after long seeking; then | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||
| 2 | have | present | good luck or much patience | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=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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