The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 20

The luck was on his side, and soon the money of the other gamblers found its way from their pockets into his.

Who acts: luck, money · What happens: be, find · To what, where: side, way, pockets

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 (luck, money), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 luck	det
2	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 side	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 side	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 side	nmod:poss
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 found	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 money	det
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 gamblers	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gamblers	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gamblers	amod
15	gamblers	gambler	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 money	nmod
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 side	conj
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod:poss
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 pockets	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 pockets	nmod:poss
21	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 found	obl
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 his	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 pockets	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 side	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the luck			Hans's side			tree rules
2	find	past	the money of the other gamblers	money's way		gamblers's pockets into Hans		soon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent way=Theme from pocket=Source

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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