The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 11

“Well, I can’t do much with this,” he said to himself; but, after all, six shillings were better than nothing, and he wrapped them up again and slipped them into his coat.

Who acts: man, six shillings · What happens: not do, say, be, wrap up, slip · To what, where: man, shillings, coat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, six shillings), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 do	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 do	advmod
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
8	much	much	ADV	_	7 do	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 this	case
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 do	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 said	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 better	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 better	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 but	punct
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 shillings	det
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 all	punct
23	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 shillings	nummod
24	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 better	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 better	cop
26	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 said	parataxis
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 nothing	case
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 better	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wrapped	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wrapped	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wrapped	nsubj
32	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wrapped	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 wrapped	compound:prt
35	again	again	ADV	_	32 wrapped	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 slipped	cc
37	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 wrapped	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 slipped	obj
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 coat	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 coat	nmod:poss
41	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 slipped	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do in a quote	can	man					with this	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	man		man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is	past	all six shillings					than nothing; good property	tree rules
4	wrap up	past	man	shillings = shilling			again		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	slip	past	man not said here	shillings = shilling		man's coat			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=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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