The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 95

In spite of the wretched state of the hut, which many people declared was too bad even for a pig to live in, the old man was very rich, for he was a great miser, and lucky besides, and would often go without food all day sooner than change one of his beloved gold pieces.

Who acts: many people, hut, old man, man · What happens: declare, be, live in, go, change, spite · To what, where: spite, one, wretched state

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many people, hut, old man, man), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 spite	case
2	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rich	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 state	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 state	det
5	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 state	amod
6	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spite	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hut	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hut	det
9	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 state	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bad	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 bad	nsubj
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 declared	nsubj
14	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 which	acl:relcl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bad	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 bad	advmod
17	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hut	conj
18	even	even	ADV	_	21 pig	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 pig	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pig	det
21	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bad	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 live	mark
23	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 pig	acl
24	in	in	ADV	_	23 live	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spite	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rich	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 rich	cop
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 rich	advmod
31	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 miser	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	38 miser	case
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 miser	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 miser	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 miser	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 miser	amod
38	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rich	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 besides	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 besides	cc
41	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 besides	amod
42	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 miser	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 go	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 go	cc
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 go	aux
46	often	often	ADV	_	47 go	advmod
47	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 rich	parataxis
48	without	without	ADP	_	49 food	case
49	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 go	obl
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 day	det
51	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 go	obl:unmarked
52	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	47 go	advmod
53	than	than	SCONJ	_	54 change	mark
54	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 sooner	advcl
55	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 change	obj
56	of	of	ADP	_	60 pieces	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 pieces	nmod:poss
58	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 pieces	amod
59	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 pieces	compound
60	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 one	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	many people					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the hut				for a pig; bad property	tree rules
3	live in	to-infinitive	the hut not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the old man		spite of the wretched state of the hut		rich property	tree rules
5	is	past	man				for a great miser and lucky besides	tree rules
6	go	would				day	without food; often, soon property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	change	infinitive		one of man's beloved gold pieces				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
8	spite			the wretched state of the hut				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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