The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 22
When they had finished the wife asked, ‘But husband, where do all these riches come from?’
Who acts: spirits, wife, riches · What happens: finish, ask, come · To what, where: husband
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits, wife, riches), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 husband | punct |
| 10 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 husband | cc |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 do | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 riches | det:predet |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 riches | det |
| 17 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 husband | acl:relcl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 come | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 husband | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 husband | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | spirits = spirit | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the wife | husband | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | present · do-support | all riches | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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