The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 3

Now ever since Ball-Carrier’s death the family had been very poor, and often could not get enough to eat.

Who acts: family, Ball Carrier · What happens: be, not get, eat, die · To what, where: enough

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, Ball Carrier), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 poor	advmod
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Now	fixed
3	since	since	ADP	_	8 death	case
4	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Carrier	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Ball	punct
6	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 death	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Carrier	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 poor	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 family	det
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 poor	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 poor	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 poor	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 poor	advmod
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 get	cc
17	often	often	ADV	_	20 get	advmod
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 get	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 get	advmod
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 poor	conj
21	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 get	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 eat	mark
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 enough	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the family		since Ball Carrier's death; now	poor property	tree rules
2	not get	could	the family not said here	enough		often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus
3	eat	to-infinitive	the family not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	die		Ball Carrier				nom death «event 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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