Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 69

We had as much as we could do before to make both ends meet," cried she, "and now we have old men to keep into the bargain."

Who acts: We, ends · What happens: have, do, make, meet, cry, keep · To what, where: much, end, old men, bargain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, ends), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 do	mark
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	acl
9	before	before	ADV	_	8 do	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 do	advcl
12	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 ends	det
13	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 meet	nsubj
14	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 make	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cried	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 she	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 have	advmod
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 cried	conj
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 men	amod
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 have	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 keep	mark
28	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 have	advcl
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 bargain	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bargain	det
31	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 keep	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	We	much				tree rules
2	do	could	we				before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	to-infinitive	we not said here					tree rules
4	meet	present	both ends					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cry speech: express in a quote	past		end				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
6	have	present	we	old men		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
7	keep	to-infinitive	we not said here		the bargain			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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