Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 3

They were so poor that they could save nothing at all; all their earnings went in bare food, and when that was gone there was nothing left.

Who acts: man, earnings · What happens: be, save, go, leave · To what, where: nothing, all, bare food, that

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, earnings), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poor	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 poor	advmod
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 save	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 save	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 save	aux
8	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 poor	advcl
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 save	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 nothing	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 earnings	det:predet
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 earnings	nmod:poss
15	earnings	earning	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	parataxis
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 food	case
18	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 food	amod
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gone	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gone	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 gone	advmod
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 gone	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gone	aux:pass
25	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 went	conj
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 gone	advmod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 was	nsubj
29	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 nothing	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	man			poor property	tree rules
2	save	could	man	nothing	all		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme at all=Asset
3	go	past	man's earnings		bare food		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in food=Location
4	go	past · passive		that	there		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	leave	participle					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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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