More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 43

For the town money chest had been sadly emptied of late, and where was the fifty pounds to come from?

What happens: empty, be, come · To what, where: fifty pounds

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: 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 chest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chest	det
3	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 money	compound
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chest	compound
5	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 emptied	obl
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 emptied	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 emptied	aux:pass
8	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	9 emptied	advmod
9	emptied	empty	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 late	case
11	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 emptied	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pounds	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pounds	cc
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 pounds	advmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 pounds	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pounds	det
17	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 pounds	nummod
18	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 emptied	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 pounds	acl
21	from	from	ADP	_	20 come	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 emptied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	empty	past · perfect · passive		for the money chest; of late; sadly property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V PP.source»: of late=Source
2	is a	past	the fifty pounds		tree rules
3	come	to-infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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