The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 92

But everything cost more than he expected, and when all was paid he found that only three gold pieces were left.

Who acts: everything, husband · What happens: cost, expect, pay, find, leave · To what, where: more, all, three gold pieces

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, husband), 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	_	3 cost	cc
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 cost	nsubj
3	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 cost	obj
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 expected	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 expected	nsubj
7	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 more	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 paid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 paid	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 paid	mark
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 paid	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 paid	aux:pass
13	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cost	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 found	nsubj
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 paid	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 left	mark
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 three	advmod
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 pieces	nummod
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pieces	compound
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 left	nsubj:pass
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 left	aux:pass
22	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 found	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cost	present	everything	more	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value
2	expect	past	husband		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	pay	past · passive		all	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
4	find	past	husband		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	leave	past · passive		three gold pieces	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «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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