The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 59
Consequently, the Fowler’s son, who spent with reckless profusion and was supposed to be possessed of a great hoard of gold, was before very long attacked by robbers, and in trying to defend himself was so badly wounded that he died.
Who acts: son, robbers, Fowler · What happens: spend, suppose, possess, attack, try, defend · To what, where: son, Fowler, gold
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, robbers, Fowler), 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 | Consequently | consequently | ADV | _ | 6 son | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Consequently | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fowler | det |
| 4 | Fowler | fowler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Fowler | case |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 spent | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 spent | nsubj |
| 9 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 son | acl:relcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 profusion | case |
| 11 | reckless | reckless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 profusion | amod |
| 12 | profusion | profusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spent | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 supposed | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 supposed | aux:pass |
| 15 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 spent | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 possessed | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 possessed | aux:pass |
| 18 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 supposed | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hoard | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hoard | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hoard | amod |
| 22 | hoard | hoard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 possessed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gold | case |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hoard | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 attacked | aux:pass |
| 27 | before | before | ADV | _ | 26 was | advmod |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 long | advmod |
| 29 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 attacked | advmod |
| 30 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 robbers | case |
| 32 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 attacked | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 wounded | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 wounded | cc |
| 35 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 36 trying | mark |
| 36 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 wounded | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 defend | mark |
| 38 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 trying | xcomp |
| 39 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 defend | obj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 wounded | cop |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 wounded | advmod |
| 42 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 wounded | advmod |
| 43 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 attacked | conj |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 died | mark |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 died | nsubj |
| 46 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 wounded | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | the Fowler's son | with reckless profusion | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | suppose | past · passive | the Fowler's son not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | possess | to-infinitive · passive | the Fowler's son not said here | of a great hoard of gold | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 4 | attack | past · passive | robbers | the Fowler's son | long property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 5 | try | gerund | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | defend not said to happen | to-infinitive | Fowler | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary | |||||
| 7 | is | past | robbers not said here | badly, wound property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | die | past | Fowler | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 9 | hoard | gold | nom hoard «possession 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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