More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 93

It wasn't much she earned by it; but with a plate of meat at one house, and a cup of tea at another, she made shift to get on somehow, and always looked as cheerful as if she hadn't a want in the world.

Who acts: living, woman · What happens: be, shift, get, look, have · To what, where: another, want, world

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (living, woman), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 earned	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 earned	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	6 earned	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 earned	nsubj
6	earned	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 earned	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 plate	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 plate	cc
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 plate	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 plate	det
13	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 earned	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 meat	case
15	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plate	nmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 house	nummod
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meat	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cup	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cup	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cup	det
22	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 earned	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 tea	case
24	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cup	nmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 another	case
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 earned	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 shift	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 shift	nsubj
29	made	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 shift	aux
30	shift	shift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 earned	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 get	mark
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 shift	xcomp
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 somehow	case
34	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	32 get	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 looked	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 looked	cc
37	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	38 looked	advmod
38	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 earned	conj
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 cheerful	advmod
40	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 looked	xcomp
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 had	mark
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 had	mark
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 had	nsubj
44	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 cheerful	advcl
45	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 want	advmod
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 want	det
47	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 had	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 world	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 world	det
50	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 want	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 earned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	living		another	by village; with a plate of meat at one house; a cup of tea obl; earn property	tree rules
2	shift	may	woman				tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	woman not said here			somehow property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	look	past	living not said here			always, cheerful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	have	past	woman	a want	the world		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent want=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: «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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