The Aesop for Children, The Spendthrift and the Swallow, sentence 3
He was to meet some jolly young men that morning, and he was at his wits' end how to get enough money to keep up appearances.
Who acts: fellow, enough money · What happens: be, get, keep up · To what, where: end, enough money, appearances
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Spendthrift and the Swallow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, enough money), 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 | 4 meet | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 meet | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 meet | mark |
| 4 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 men | det |
| 6 | jolly | jolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 meet | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 morning | mark |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meet | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 end | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 end | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 end | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 end | cop |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wits | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 end | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 17 wits | case |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 get | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 meet | conj |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 money | amod |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 keep | mark |
| 26 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 get | xcomp |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 keep | compound:prt |
| 28 | appearances | appearance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 keep | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | fellow | morning | meet property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | fellow | at fellow's wits's end | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | fellow not said here | enough money | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep up | to-infinitive | enough money not said here | appearances | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme |
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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