The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 78
“Yes; and when I have toiled all day I hardly earn enough to give us one meal.”
Who acts: man · What happens: toil, earn, give · To what, where: one meal, us
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 (man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 earn | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 toiled | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 toiled | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 toiled | cc |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 toiled | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 toiled | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 toiled | aux |
| 8 | toiled | toil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 earn | advcl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 toiled | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 earn | nsubj |
| 12 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 13 earn | advmod |
| 13 | earn | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 earn | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 earn | advcl |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 meal | nummod |
| 19 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 earn | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 earn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toil in a quote | present · perfect | the man = man | day | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | earn in a quote | present | the man = man | enough, hardly property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | the man = man not said here | one meal | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient meal=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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