The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 68
But, industrious as he was, he could hardly buy bread and cheese for himself and his wife, and they grew thinner and thinner daily.
Who acts: cobbler, bread · What happens: be, buy, grow · To what, where: bread
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cobbler, bread), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 industrious | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 industrious | punct |
| 3 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 was | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 was | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 buy | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 buy | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 buy | aux |
| 10 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 11 buy | advmod |
| 11 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 industrious | parataxis |
| 12 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 buy | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cheese | cc |
| 14 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bread | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 himself | case |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 buy | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wife | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 himself | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grew | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grew | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 buy | advcl |
| 24 | thinner | thin | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 grew | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 thinner | cc |
| 26 | thinner | thin | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 thinner | conj |
| 27 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 23 grew | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 industrious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | cobbler | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | buy | could | cobbler | bread and cheese | for cobbler; hardly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bread=Theme for himself=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | grow | past | bread | daily, thin property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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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