The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 120
Under the stone lies a great treasure, which has been hidden there in time of war.
What happens: lie, hide · To what, where: great treasure, stone
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 stone | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stone | det |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | obl |
| 4 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 treasure | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 treasure | amod |
| 7 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lies | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hidden | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hidden | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 hidden | aux:pass |
| 12 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 treasure | acl:relcl |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 hidden | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hidden | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 war | case |
| 17 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a great treasure | the stone | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | present · perfect · passive | a great treasure | there | time | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/33/120/