Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 82

His property had dwindled away by degrees, and he and his daughters would have to starve, for he was so poor that he had not the money to pay the host, and would therefore be put into prison.

Who acts: degrees, man · What happens: dwindle away, have, starve, be, pay, put · To what, where: property, money, host, prison

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (degrees, man), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 property	nmod:poss
2	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dwindled	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dwindled	aux
4	dwindled	dwindle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 dwindled	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 degrees	case
7	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dwindled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 daughters	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughters	nmod:poss
13	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 he	conj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dwindled	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 starve	mark
17	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 have	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 poor	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 poor	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 poor	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 poor	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 poor	advmod
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 starve	ccomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 poor	advcl
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 money	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 money	det
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 pay	mark
31	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 money	acl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 host	det
33	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pay	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 put	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 put	cc
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 put	aux
37	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	39 put	advmod
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 put	aux:pass
39	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dwindled	conj
40	into	into	ADP	_	41 prison	case
41	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 put	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dwindled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dwindle away	past · perfect · passive	degrees	man's property		away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient subject=Extent
2	have	would	man				tree rules
3	starve	to-infinitive	man not said here				tree rules
4	is	past	man			poor property	tree rules
5	have	past	man	the money			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
6	pay	to-infinitive	man not said here	the host			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Asset
7	put	would · passive	degrees not said here		prison	therefore property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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