The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 52

She made her living mostly by selling the milk of a flock of goats; but she was very, very poor, and not very strong, and often used to wonder how she would live if she got too weak or ill to attend to her goats.

Who acts: widow, anger · What happens: make, live, sell, be, use, wonder · To what, where: anger, milk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, anger), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 made	xcomp
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 living	advmod
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 selling	mark
7	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 living	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 milk	det
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 selling	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 flock	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 flock	det
12	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 milk	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 goats	case
14	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flock	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 poor	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 poor	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 poor	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 poor	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	22 poor	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 poor	punct
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 poor	advmod
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 strong	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 strong	cc
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 strong	advmod
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 strong	advmod
27	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 used	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 used	cc
30	often	often	ADV	_	31 used	advmod
31	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 made	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 wonder	mark
33	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 used	advcl
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	37 live	advmod
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 live	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 live	aux
37	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wonder	ccomp
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 got	mark
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 got	nsubj
40	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 live	advcl
41	too	too	ADV	_	42 weak	advmod
42	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 got	xcomp
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 ill	cc
44	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 weak	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 attend	mark
46	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 ill	advcl
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 goats	case
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 goats	nmod:poss
49	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 attend	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	widow	anger		tree rules
2	live	gerund	anger not said here		mostly property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sell	gerund	anger not said here	the milk of a flock of goats		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
4	is	past	widow		poor property	tree rules
5	use	participle	widow not said here		often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive	widow not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	live	would	widow			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	get a condition, not said to happen	past	widow		weak property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	attend	to-infinitive	widow not said here		to widow's goats	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to goat=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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