Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 4

Sometimes he had no break-fast, and sometimes he had no dinner; and he was glad at any time to get a crust of bread or a drop of milk.

Who acts: Dick · What happens: have, be, get · To what, where: break, dinner, crust

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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 break	det
5	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fast	punct
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 break	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	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	3 had	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 dinner	det
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 glad	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 glad	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 glad	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 glad	cop
19	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 time	case
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 glad	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 get	mark
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 glad	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 crust	det
26	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 bread	case
28	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crust	nmod
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 drop	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 drop	det
31	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crust	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 milk	case
33	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drop	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Dick	no break		sometimes property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Patient
2	have	past	Dick	no dinner		sometimes property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
3	is	past	Dick		time	glad property	tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive	Dick not said here	a crust of bread or a drop of milk			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crust=Stimulus

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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