The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 130

‘How did you manage that?’ asked the minister eagerly, but Hans answered, ‘It is only fools who boast of their farthings; wise men take care to hide their crowns.’

Who acts: you, Hans, money, fools, wise men · What happens: manage, ask, answer, be, boast, take · To what, where: that, minister, fools, care, crowns · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (you, Hans, money, fools), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 manage	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 manage	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 manage	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 manage	nsubj
5	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	ccomp
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 manage	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 manage	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 manage	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 minister	det
11	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
12	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	9 asked	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 answered	cc
15	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 answered	nsubj
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fools	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 fools	punct
19	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fools	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fools	cop
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 fools	advmod
22	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 answered	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 boast	nsubj
24	boast	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fools	acl:relcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 farthings	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 farthings	nmod:poss
27	farthings	farthing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 boast	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct
29	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 men	amod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 take	nsubj
31	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	parataxis
32	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 hide	mark
34	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 take	advcl
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 crowns	nmod:poss
36	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 hide	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	manage	past · do-support	you	that		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past		the minister	eagerly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient clause=Topic
3	answer speech: assert	past	Hans			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	money	fools		tree rules
5	boast speech: other	present	fools		of Hans's farthings	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take	present	wise men	care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
7	hide	to-infinitive	wise men not said here	Hans's crowns		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient
8	crown		Hans = han			nom crown «communication 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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