The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 2

He had no relations, but lived all by himself in a little mud hut some distance from any town, and made his living by cutting grass in the jungle, and selling it as fodder for horses.

Who acts: man · What happens: have, live, make, cut, sell · To what, where: relations, little mud hut, living, grass, jungle

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 relations	det
4	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 lived	cc
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
8	all	all	ADV	_	10 himself	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 lived	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 hut	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hut	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hut	amod
14	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hut	compound
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 distance	det
17	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hut	appos
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 town	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 town	det
20	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 distance	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 living	nmod:poss
25	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
26	by	by	SCONJ	_	27 cutting	mark
27	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 made	advcl
28	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cutting	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 jungle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 jungle	det
31	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cutting	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 selling	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 selling	cc
34	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 selling	obj
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 fodder	case
37	fodder	fodder	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 selling	obl
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 horses	case
39	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 selling	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	man	no relations			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Patient
2	live	past	man not said here		a little mud hut	by man	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location
3	make	past	man not said here	man's living			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product
4	cut	gerund	man not said here	grass	the jungle		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grass=Product
5	sell	gerund	man not said here	grass		as fodder; for horses	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme for horse=Asset
6	live		man				nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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