The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 66

He was very poor, having only his axe to depend upon, and two mules to carry the wood he cut to the neighbouring town; but he worked hard, and was always out of bed by five o’clock, summer and winter.

Who acts: Lapplandische · What happens: be, have, depend, carry, cut, neighbour · To what, where: axe, wood, bed

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 (Lapplandische), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 poor	advmod
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 having	punct
6	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 poor	advcl
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 axe	advmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 axe	nmod:poss
9	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 having	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 depend	mark
11	depend	depend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 having	advcl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 depend	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mules	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mules	cc
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 mules	nummod
16	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poor	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 carry	mark
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 mules	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wood	det
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carry	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cut	nsubj
22	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wood	acl:relcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 town	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 town	det
25	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 town	amod
26	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cut	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 worked	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 worked	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 worked	nsubj
30	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	conj
31	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 worked	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 bed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 bed	cc
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 bed	cop
35	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	38 bed	advmod
36	out	out	ADP	_	38 bed	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 bed	case
38	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 worked	obl
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 o’clock	case
40	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 o’clock	nummod
41	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 worked	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 summer	punct
43	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 o’clock	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 winter	cc
45	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 o’clock	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Lapplandische			two mules obl; poor property	tree rules
2	have	gerund	Lapplandische not said here	Lapplandische's axe			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Patient
3	depend	to-infinitive	Lapplandische not said here				vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	carry	to-infinitive	Lapplandische not said here	the wood			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
5	cut	past	Lapplandische	the wood not said here		to the neighbouring town result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent wood=Patient to town=Result
6	neighbour	gerund					tree rules
7	work	past	Lapplandische			by five o’clock and summer and winter; hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past			bed	always property	tree rules

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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