The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 84
In this way Hans suddenly became rich--rich enough to buy a property of his own.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: become, buy · To what, where: way, property
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), 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 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | obl |
| 4 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 5 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 became | advmod |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 rich | punct |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 became | xcomp |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 rich | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 buy | mark |
| 12 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rich | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 property | det |
| 14 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buy | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 own | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 own | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 property | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Hans | in this way result; rich, suddenly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in way=Result | ||||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | Hans not said here | a property of Hans's own | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Theme |
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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