Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 2

At length things came to such a pass with the poor man that he had nothing to eat, and could get work nowhere.

Who acts: other · What happens: come, have, eat, get · To what, where: length things, nothing, work

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 things	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 things	compound
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 pass	case
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 pass	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pass	det
8	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 man	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pass	nmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	acl:relcl
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 had	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 eat	mark
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 nothing	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 get	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 get	cc
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 get	aux
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
23	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 get	obj
24	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 get	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past			length things	to such pass with the poor man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pass=Initial_Location
2	have	past	other	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	eat	to-infinitive	other not said here	nothing not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	could		work		nowhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus

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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