The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 12

He worked in his garden for the next few weeks, and he and his mother contrived to live on the fruit and vegetables he got out of it, and then she too died suddenly.

Who acts: man, half · What happens: work, contrive, live, get out, die · To what, where: fruit

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, half), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 worked	nsubj
2	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 garden	nmod:poss
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 worked	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 weeks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 weeks	det
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weeks	amod
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weeks	amod
10	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 worked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 contrived	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 contrived	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 contrived	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mother	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 he	conj
17	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 worked	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 live	mark
19	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 contrived	xcomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 fruit	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fruit	det
22	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 live	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 vegetables	cc
24	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fruit	conj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 got	nsubj
26	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fruit	acl:relcl
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 got	advmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 got	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 died	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 died	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 died	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 died	nsubj
34	too	too	ADV	_	35 died	advmod
35	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 contrived	conj
36	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	35 died	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	man			week	in man's garden	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=Theme
2	contrive	past	man					tree rules
3	live	to-infinitive	man not said here		the fruit and vegetables			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fruit=Location
4	get out	past	man	the fruit and vegetables not said here			of garden; out property	tree rules
5	die	past	half			then	suddenly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/18/12/