Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 56

But his money would not last forever; and as he spent and gave away a great deal daily, and received none, he found himself at last with only two shillings left.

Who acts: money, soldier · What happens: not last, spend, give away, receive, find, leave · To what, where: great deal, none, soldier, two shillings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money, soldier), 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	_	6 last	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 money	nmod:poss
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 last	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 last	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 last	advmod
6	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 last	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 spent	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 spent	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 spent	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spent	nsubj
12	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 last	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gave	cc
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 spent	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 gave	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 deal	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 deal	amod
18	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
19	daily	daily	ADV	_	14 gave	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 received	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 received	cc
22	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 spent	parataxis
23	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	22 received	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 spent	conj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 found	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 last	case
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 found	xcomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 shillings	case
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 two	advmod
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 shillings	nummod
33	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 last	nmod
34	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 shillings	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not last	would	soldier's money		forever property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	spend	past	soldier			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	give away	past	soldier not said here	a great deal	away, daily property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent deal=Theme
4	receive	past		none		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme
5	find	past	soldier	soldier	last property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
6	leave	participle		two shillings not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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