The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 134
Sure enough, there was the hole, and in the hole lay the treasure, exactly as the little man had said.
Who acts: hole, little man · What happens: be, lie, say · To what, where: treasure, hole · 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 (hole, little man), 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 | Sure | sure | ADV | _ | 5 was | advmod |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Sure | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sure | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hole | det |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lay | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hole | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hole | det |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 13 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 was | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 treasure | det |
| 15 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 17 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 23 said | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 said | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | aux |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 lay | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the hole | there | sure property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | lie | past | the treasure | the hole | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the little man | exactly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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