The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 77

But come to an end it did, and they had to sell their fine things one by one, till at length nothing was left but a cloak apiece, and one blanket to cover them.

Who acts: you, end, clothes · What happens: come, do, have, sell, leave, cover · To what, where: one blanket, end, fine things, nothing, clothes

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, end, clothes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 come	cc
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 end	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 end	det
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 end	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 come	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sell	mark
13	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 things	nmod:poss
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 things	amod
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sell	obj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 things	flat
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 left	punct
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 left	mark
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 length	case
23	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nothing	compound
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 left	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 left	aux:pass
26	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 sell	advcl
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 apiece	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 apiece	det
29	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 apiece	compound
30	apiece	apiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 left	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 blanket	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 blanket	cc
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 blanket	nummod
34	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 cover	mark
36	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 blanket	acl
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 cover	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here	one blanket	to a end	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
2	do	past	end	a end not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Eventuality
3	have	past	clothes			tree rules
4	sell	to-infinitive	clothes not said here	clothes's fine things		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
5	leave	past · passive		nothing		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	cover	to-infinitive	you not said here	clothes		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=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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