More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 112

So she up and told him, and he said, "Then I'm a ruined man, for that money was to pay our rent with.

Who acts: Hereafterthis, robber, money, our · What happens: tell, say, ruin, be, rent · To what, where: robber, ruined man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hereafterthis, robber, money, our), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 she	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
13	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 man	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 man	nsubj
15	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 man	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pay	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 pay	mark
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 money	det
22	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pay	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pay	cop
24	to	to	PART	_	25 pay	mark
25	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 rent	nmod:poss
27	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pay	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	25 pay	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Hereafterthis		robber			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	robber					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ruin in a quote	participle						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	robber	a ruined man		then		tree rules
5	is in a quote	past	that money				pay property	tree rules
6	rent in a quote		our					nom rent «possession transitive»: 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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