Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 3

Dick was not old enough to work, and so he had a hard time of it indeed.

Who acts: Dick · What happens: not be, work, have

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the City.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick), 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	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 work	mark
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 old	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 had	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 time	nmod
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	12 had	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Dick		enough, old property	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	Dick not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	Dick	time	indeed property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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