More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 54

"I've lost the only two things as I cared for, and what else can I find to buy a pottle o' brains with!" and he fair howled, till the tears ran down into his mouth.

Who acts: yi, rt, tears · What happens: lose, care, find, buy, howl, run down · To what, where: only two things, mouth

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yi, rt, tears), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 things	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 things	nummod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	obj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 cared	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 cared	nsubj
11	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	advcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	11 cared	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 find	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 find	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 find	obl
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 what	advmod
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 find	aux
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lost	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 buy	mark
21	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 find	xcomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 o	det
23	pottle	pottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 o	compound
24	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 brains	compound
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 o	punct
26	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 with	nsubj
27	with	with	ADP	_	21 buy	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 find	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 find	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 howled	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 howled	nsubj
32	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 howled	amod
33	howled	howl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 lost	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ran	punct
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 ran	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tears	det
37	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 ran	nsubj
38	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 howled	conj
39	down	down	ADV	_	38 ran	advmod
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 mouth	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 mouth	nmod:poss
42	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ran	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	present · perfect	yi	the only two things		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	care in a quote	past	yi			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	find in a quote	can	yi			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	buy in a quote	to-infinitive	yi not said here			vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	howl	participle	rt			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	run down	past	the tears		into rt's mouth result; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into mouth=Result

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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