The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 77

Next day they went to the senate house, where the laws were made, and, bowing low, they said, ‘Oh, noble lords, last night we dreamed that beneath the foot of a hill there lies buried a pot of gold.

Who acts: people, noble lords, lies, there · What happens: go, make, bow, say, dream, bury · To what, where: senate house, laws, pot, foot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, noble lords, lies, there), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	senate	senate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	compound
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 made	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 laws	det
12	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 made	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 made	aux:pass
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 house	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bowing	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bowing	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bowing	punct
18	bowing	bow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
19	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 bowing	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lords	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 lords	punct
25	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	28 lords	discourse
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Oh	punct
27	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lords	amod
28	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dreamed	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 night	punct
30	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 night	amod
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dreamed	obl:unmarked
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 dreamed	nsubj
33	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 buried	mark
35	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	37 foot	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 foot	det
37	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 buried	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 hill	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 hill	det
40	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 foot	nmod
41	there	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes	42 lies	nmod:poss
42	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 buried	nsubj
43	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 dreamed	advcl
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 pot	det
45	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 buried	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 gold	case
47	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 pot	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	people		the senate house	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	make	past · passive		the laws				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	bow	gerund	people not said here				low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	people					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	dream	past	noble lords			night		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	bury	past	there's lies	a pot of gold	the foot of a hill			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pot=Theme beneath foot=Destination
7	lie		there = they					nom lie «communication intransitive»: 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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