The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 99

Half of his wealth is ill-gotten, and this you must give back to the poor from whom he squeezed it.

Who acts: this, man · What happens: get, give back, squeeze · To what, where: Half, wealth

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 (this, 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	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 gotten	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 wealth	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wealth	nmod:poss
4	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Half	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gotten	aux:pass
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gotten	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 ill	punct
8	gotten	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 give	cc
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 give	nsubj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gotten	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	18 poor	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 poor	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 poor	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 give	ccomp
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 whom	case
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 poor	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 squeezed	nsubj
22	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 whom	acl:relcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 squeezed	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	present · passive		Half of Half's wealth	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	give back	must	this		vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	squeeze	past	man	wealth	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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