The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 42

As he was too young, and she was too old, to work, they were very poor, and often did not have enough to eat.

Who acts: Hare, snow, ice · What happens: be, work, not have, eat · To what, where: enough

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, snow, ice), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 young	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 young	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 young	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 young	advmod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 work	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 old	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 old	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 old	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 old	cop
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 old	advmod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 young	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 work	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 work	mark
14	work	work	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 poor	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 poor	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 poor	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 poor	advmod
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 work	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
22	often	often	ADV	_	25 have	advmod
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 have	advmod
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 poor	conj
26	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 have	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 enough	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 work	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hare		young property	tree rules
2	is	past	snow		old property	tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	ice		poor property	tree rules
5	not have	past · do-support	ice not said here	enough	often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient
6	eat	to-infinitive	ice not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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