The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 81
Oh, how lucky Hans thought himself; but where should he get a sack to carry his treasure home before anyone else found it?
Who acts: lucky Hans, friend, sack, anyone · What happens: think, get, carry, find, treasure · To what, where: friend, sack, treasure · 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 (lucky Hans, friend, sack, anyone), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 lucky | advmod |
| 4 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Hans | amod |
| 5 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 thought | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 get | advmod |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sack | det |
| 15 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 carry | mark |
| 17 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 get | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 19 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carry | obj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 carry | advmod |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 found | mark |
| 22 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 found | nsubj |
| 23 | else | else | ADV | _ | 22 anyone | advmod |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 carry | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | lucky Hans | friend | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | should | friend | a sack | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | a sack not said here | friend's treasure | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||
| 4 | find | past | anyone | sack | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 5 | treasure | friend | 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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