The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 13

It was such a new thing to them to have money to spend, that they were not as careful as they might have been, and by-and-by there was not a single coin left in the purse.

Who acts: cottage, thing · What happens: be, have, spend, not be, leave · To what, where: new thing, thing, money, single coin, purse

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cottage, thing), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 thing	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thing	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 have	mark
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 spend	mark
13	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 money	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 careful	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 careful	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 careful	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 careful	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 careful	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 careful	advmod
20	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 have	conj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 been	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 been	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 been	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 been	aux
25	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 careful	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 coin	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 coin	cc
28	by	by	ADP	_	38 coin	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 by	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 coin	cc
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 and	punct
32	by	by	SCONJ	_	34 was	mark
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 was	expl
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 coin	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 was	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 coin	det
37	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 coin	amod
38	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	conj
39	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 coin	acl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 purse	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 purse	det
42	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 left	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cottage	such new thing and a single coin	thing		tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive		money			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
3	spend	to-infinitive		money not said here			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not is	past	thing			careful property	tree rules
5	be	might · perfect	thing				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	cottage not said here			by a single coin	tree rules
7	leave	participle		a single coin not said here		in the purse result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in purse=Result

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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