The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 150
There, at the roots, was more gold and silver than even Mark the Rich had.
Who acts: roots · What happens: be, have · To what, where: more gold
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 (roots), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 had | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 roots | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 roots | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 roots | det |
| 5 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 had | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gold | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gold | cop |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 gold | amod |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 silver | cc |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gold | conj |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 Mark | case |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 Mark | advmod |
| 14 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gold | nmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Rich | det |
| 16 | Rich | Rich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mark | appos |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | more gold and silver | than Mark | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the roots | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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