The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 28

From his youth up, Master Peter had hated trouble; when he had money he spent it freely, and fed all the hungry folk who asked him for bread.

Who acts: Master, hungry folk · What happens: hate, have, spend, feed, ask · To what, where: trouble, youth, money, hungry folk, Master

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, hungry folk), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 youth	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 youth	nmod:poss
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hated	obl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 youth	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 youth	punct
6	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hated	nsubj
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Master	flat
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hated	aux
9	hated	hate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hated	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 had	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hated	parataxis
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 spent	nsubj
17	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 money	acl:relcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 spent	obj
19	freely	freely	ADV	_	17 spent	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fed	cc
22	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	conj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 folk	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 folk	det
25	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 folk	amod
26	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fed	obj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 asked	nsubj
28	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 folk	acl:relcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 asked	iobj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 bread	case
31	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 asked	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hate	past · perfect	Master	trouble		Master's youth		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trouble=Stimulus
2	have	past	Master	money				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
3	spend	past	Master	money			freely property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
4	feed	past	Master not said here	all hungry folk				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Recipient
5	ask speech: ask	past	all hungry folk		Master		for bread	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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