More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 46

He'd much ado to make his living, trudging about with his pack at his back and his dog at his heels, and at the close of the day's labour was but too glad to sit down and sleep.

Who acts: salmon · What happens: make, trudge, be, sit down, sleep, live · To what, where: living, back, close

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (salmon), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 'd	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ado	amod
4	ado	ado	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 'd	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 'd	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 living	nmod:poss
8	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trudging	punct
10	trudging	trudge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 make	advcl
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 trudging	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 pack	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 pack	nmod:poss
14	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trudging	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 back	nmod:poss
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trudging	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dog	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 dog	nmod:poss
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 back	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 heels	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heels	nmod:poss
23	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trudging	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 close	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 close	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 close	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 close	det
28	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 glad	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 labour	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 day	det
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 labour	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 day	case
33	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 close	nmod
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 glad	cop
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 glad	cc
36	too	too	ADV	_	37 glad	advmod
37	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 'd	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	39 sit	mark
39	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 glad	xcomp
40	down	down	ADP	_	39 sit	compound:prt
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 sleep	cc
42	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 sit	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 'd	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		salmon's living			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product
2	trudge	gerund			salmon's back and salmon's dog	with salmon's pack; at salmon's heels; about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at back=Trajectory
3	is	past			the close of the day's labour	glad property	tree rules
4	sit down	to-infinitive					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sleep	present					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	live		salmon				nom living «cognition 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: «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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