--- title: Next day they went to the senate house, where the laws were made, an… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Next day they went to the senate house, where the laws were made, and, bowing low, they said, ‘Oh, noble lords, last night we dreamed that beneath the foot of a hill there lies buried a pot of gold. Who acts: people, noble lords, lies, there. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, noble lords, lies, there), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:43:77 # text = Next day they went to the senate house, where the laws were made, and, bowing low, they said, ‘Oh, noble lords, last night we dreamed that beneath the foot of a hill there lies buried a pot of gold. 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 senate senate NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 bowing bow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 19 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 28 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 dreamed dream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 35 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 there their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Typo=Yes 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 43 buried bury VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | people | | | the senate house | day | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **make** | past · passive | | the laws | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **bow** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | low *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **dream** | past | noble lords | | | | night | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **bury** | past | there's lies | a pot of gold | | the foot of a hill | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pot=Theme beneath foot=Destination | | 7 | **lie** | | there *= they* | | | | | | nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/78/) - ↑ back to [Virgilius the Sorcerer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/)