The Aesop for Children, The Miser, sentence 15

I couldn't think of spending any of it."

Who acts: I · What happens: not think, spend · To what, where: any

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miser. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 think	advmod
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 spending	mark
6	spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 think	advcl
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 spending	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 any	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	could	I						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spend	gerund	I not said here	any					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Asset

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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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