The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 52
If he could get enough to buy a small estate and live comfortably on it for the rest of his life, that was all he now cared for.
Who acts: king · What happens: get, buy, live, care · To what, where: enough, small estate, estate
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (king), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 get | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 buy | mark |
| 7 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 enough | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 estate | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 estate | amod |
| 10 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buy | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 live | cc |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 buy | conj |
| 13 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 12 live | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 live | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 rest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rest | det |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 live | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rest | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 all | punct |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 all | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 all | cop |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 rest | conj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 cared | nsubj |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 cared | advmod |
| 28 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 all | acl:relcl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 cared | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | could | king | enough | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | king not said here | a small estate | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent estate=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | present | king not said here | estate | for the rest of king's life; comfortably property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location | |||
| 4 | care | past | king | now | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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