The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 5

He found out who were the people who were poorest in the village, and spent half of his money in helping them, and the other half he put in his pocket.

Who acts: father, other half · What happens: find out, be, spend, help, put · To what, where: village, half, people, pocket · 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 (father, other 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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 found	compound:prt
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 poorest	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 poorest	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 poorest	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 poorest	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 poorest	cop
10	poorest	poor	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 found	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 village	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 village	det
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 poorest	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spent	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 spent	cc
16	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 spent	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 money	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 money	nmod:poss
20	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 half	nmod
21	in	in	SCONJ	_	22 helping	mark
22	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 spent	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 helping	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 put	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 half	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 half	amod
28	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	30 put	nsubj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 put	nsubj
30	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 pocket	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 pocket	nmod:poss
33	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find out	past	father				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is	past			the village	poor property	tree rules
3	spend	past	father not said here	half of father's money			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Asset
4	help	gerund	father not said here	people			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
5	put	past	the other half		father's pocket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pocket=Destination

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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