The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 277

Rolling stones gather no moss, but they sometimes gain polish; and the months which John had spent in roaming about the world had not been wasted.

Who acts: Rolling stones, crowns · What happens: roll, gather, gain, spend, roam, not waste · To what, where: moss, polish, months

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rolling stones, crowns), 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	Rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stones	amod
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gather	nsubj
3	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 moss	det
5	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gather	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gain	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 gain	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gain	nsubj
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 gain	advmod
10	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gather	parataxis
11	polish	polish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gain	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 spent	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spent	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 months	det
15	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 spent	nsubj:pass
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 spent	nsubj:pass
17	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 spent	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spent	aux
19	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gather	conj
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	21 roaming	mark
21	roaming	roam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 spent	advcl
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 roaming	obl
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 wasted	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 wasted	advmod
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 wasted	aux:pass
28	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 roaming	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gather	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gather	present	Rolling stones	no moss		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moss=Theme
3	gain	present	crowns = crown	polish	sometimes property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent polish=Theme
4	spend	past · perfect · passive		the months		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
5	roam	gerund			about the world	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about world=Trajectory
6	not waste	past · perfect · passive				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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