The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 128
Then it will fall, and under its roots will be found more gold and silver than even Mark the Rich has got.’
Who acts: oak, Rich · What happens: fall, find, get · To what, where: more gold, roots, Mark
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oak, Rich), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fall | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fall | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | aux |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 roots | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 roots | nmod:poss |
| 9 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 found | obl |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 found | aux:pass |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fall | parataxis |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 gold | amod |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 silver | cc |
| 16 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gold | conj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 Mark | case |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 Mark | advmod |
| 19 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Rich | det |
| 21 | Rich | Rich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 got | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 got | aux |
| 23 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 Mark | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | future | oak | then | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | future · passive | more gold and silver | oak's roots | than Mark | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: gold=Topic | |||
| 3 | get | present · perfect | the Rich | Mark not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus |
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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