The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 336

‘You have proved to me that happiness does not lie in the possession of treasures.’

Who acts: You, happiness · What happens: prove, not lie, possess · To what, where: me, possession, treasures

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 (You, happiness), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 proved	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 proved	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 proved	aux
4	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 proved	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 lie	mark
8	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lie	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lie	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 lie	advmod
11	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 proved	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 possession	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 possession	det
14	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lie	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 treasures	case
16	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 possession	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 proved	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 proved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	prove	present · perfect	You		me		vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to i=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	not lie	present · do-support	happiness			the possession of treasures	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in possession=Location
3	possess			treasures			nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient

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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