The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 59
In his absence Hans wandered from one treasure chamber to another, sometimes trying to break off a little lump of gold, but never able to do it.
Who acts: Hans, friend · What happens: wander, try, break off, do, absent · To what, where: absence, little lump, lump
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, friend), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 absence | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 absence | nmod:poss |
| 3 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 4 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 chamber | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 chamber | nummod |
| 8 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chamber | compound |
| 9 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 another | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 chamber | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trying | punct |
| 13 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 trying | advmod |
| 14 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wandered | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 break | mark |
| 16 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 trying | xcomp |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 break | compound:prt |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lump | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lump | amod |
| 20 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 break | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lump | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 able | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 able | cc |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 able | advmod |
| 26 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wandered | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | xcomp |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 do | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Hans | friend's absence | from one treasure chamber to another | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in absence=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | try | gerund | Hans not said here | sometimes property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | break off not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hans not said here | a little lump of gold | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lump=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | Hans not said here | lump | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | absent | friend | nom absence «state 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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