The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 3

He only earned by this five halfpence a day; but he was a simple old man, and needed so little out of it, that he saved up one halfpenny daily, and spent the rest upon such food and clothing as he required.

Who acts: man · What happens: earn, be, need, save up, spend, require · To what, where: simple old man, little, halfpence, one halfpenny, rest

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	3 earned	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 earned	advmod
3	earned	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 halfpence	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 halfpence	det
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 halfpence	nummod
7	halfpence	halfpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 earned	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 earned	obl:unmarked
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 man	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 man	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 man	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
15	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 earned	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 needed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 needed	cc
20	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 earned	parataxis
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 little	advmod
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 needed	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	25 it	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 little	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saved	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 saved	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 saved	nsubj
29	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 needed	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 saved	compound:prt
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 halfpenny	nummod
32	halfpenny	halfpenny	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saved	obj
33	daily	daily	ADV	_	29 saved	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 spent	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 spent	cc
36	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 earned	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 rest	det
38	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spent	obj
39	upon	upon	ADP	_	41 food	case
40	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 food	amod
41	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spent	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 clothing	cc
43	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 food	conj
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 required	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 required	nsubj
46	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 spent	advcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 earned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	earn	past	man			day	by this five halfpence	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	man	a simple old man				tree rules
3	need	past		little	halfpence			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot little=Theme
4	save up	past	man	one halfpenny			daily property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halfpenny=Theme
5	spend	past	man not said here	the rest			upon such food and clothing	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset
6	require	past	man					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=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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