The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 137

All that day there was no food in the house, for the veils had not been sold, and they had no money to buy anything with.

Who acts: veils · What happens: be, not sell, have, buy · To what, where: house, money, anything

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (veils), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det:predet
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	obl:unmarked
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 house	cop
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 food	det
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sold	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 house	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 veils	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 veils	det
14	veils	veil	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sold	obl
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sold	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 sold	advmod
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 sold	aux:pass
18	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sold	conj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 money	det
24	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 buy	mark
26	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 money	acl
27	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 buy	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	27 anything	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past			the house		tree rules
2	not sell	past · perfect · passive				for the veils	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: for veil=Asset
3	have	past	veils = veil	no money			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
4	buy	to-infinitive	veils = veil not said here	anything			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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 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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