The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 8

One person said that hidden treasure was to be found there; another that the richest food was always to be had there, although the castle was uninhabited; and a third, that an evil spirit dwelt within the walls, so terrible, that anyone who forced his way into the castle came out of it more dead than alive.

Who acts: One person, castle, evil spirit, third · What happens: say, find, have, be, dwell, force · To what, where: hidden treasure, richest food, way, castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One person, castle, evil spirit, third), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 person	nummod
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 found	mark
5	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 treasure	amod
6	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	aux:pass
8	to	to	PART	_	10 found	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 found	aux:pass
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	ccomp
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 found	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 another	punct
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 said	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 food	det
16	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 food	amod
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 had	aux:pass
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 had	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	22 had	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	aux:pass
22	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	ccomp
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 had	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 uninhabited	punct
25	although	although	SCONJ	_	29 uninhabited	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 castle	det
27	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 uninhabited	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 uninhabited	cop
29	uninhabited	uninhabited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 had	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 third	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 third	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 third	det
33	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 came	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 dwelt	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 dwelt	mark
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 spirit	det
37	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 spirit	compound
38	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 dwelt	nsubj
39	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 third	conj
40	within	within	ADP	_	42 walls	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 walls	det
42	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 dwelt	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 terrible	punct
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 terrible	advmod
45	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 third	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 anyone	punct
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 anyone	mark
48	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	56 came	nsubj
49	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 forced	nsubj
50	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 anyone	acl:relcl
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 way	nmod:poss
52	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 forced	obj
53	into	into	ADP	_	55 castle	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 castle	det
55	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 forced	obl
56	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
57	out	out	ADP	_	59 it	case
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 it	case
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 came	obl
60	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	61 dead	advmod
61	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 came	advcl
62	than	than	ADP	_	63 alive	case
63	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 dead	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	One person				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find	past · passive		hidden treasure	there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	have	past · passive		the richest food	there	always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	past	the castle			uninhabited property	tree rules
5	dwell	past	a evil spirit			within the walls	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	force	past		spirit's way	the castle		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient
7	come out	past	a third	castle			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result

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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