The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 37

So the young men started off one morning in high spirits, never doubting that work such as they might be willing to do would be had for the asking, as soon as their little store of money was spent.

Who acts: young men, that, spirits, asking · What happens: start off, not doubt, work, be, do, have · To what, where: high spirits

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young men, that, spirits, asking), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 started	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 started	nsubj
5	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 morning	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 morning	nummod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 started	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 spirits	case
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spirits	amod
11	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 started	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 doubting	punct
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 doubting	advmod
14	doubting	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 work	advcl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 work	nsubj
16	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 started	parataxis
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	22 willing	mark
18	as	as	ADP	_	17 such	fixed
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 willing	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 willing	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 willing	cop
22	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 had	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 do	mark
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 willing	xcomp
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 had	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	aux:pass
27	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 work	ccomp
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 spent	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 spent	det
30	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 spent	csubj:pass
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 soon	punct
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 soon	advmod
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 asking	advmod
34	as	as	ADP	_	37 store	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 store	nmod:poss
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 store	amod
37	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 soon	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 money	case
39	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 store	nmod
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 spent	aux:pass
41	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 had	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	start off	past	the young men	high spirits	morning		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morning=Eventuality
2	not doubt	gerund	that not said here				vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	work	present	that				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	is	might	spirits = spirit			willing property	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	spirits = spirit not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	would · passive	that not said here				tree rules
7	ask speech: ask	gerund				soon property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	spend	past · passive	asking				vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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