The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 67

He was a clever boy, so she saved up enough money to send him to school, and, as soon as he was old enough, to apprentice him to any trade that he would choose.

Who acts: widow, Erin · What happens: be, save up, send, apprentice, choose · To what, where: clever boy, enough money, widow, school, trade

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (widow, Erin), 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	5 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saved	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 saved	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saved	nsubj
9	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	acl:relcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 saved	compound:prt
11	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 money	amod
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saved	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 send	mark
14	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 money	acl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 send	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 school	case
17	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 send	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 apprentice	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 apprentice	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 soon	advmod
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 apprentice	advmod
23	as	as	ADP	_	26 old	case
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 old	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 old	cop
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 soon	conj
27	enough	enough	ADV	_	26 old	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 apprentice	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 apprentice	mark
30	apprentice	apprentice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 saved	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 apprentice	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 trade	case
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 trade	det
34	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 apprentice	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 choose	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 choose	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 choose	aux
38	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 trade	acl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	widow	a clever boy			tree rules
2	save up	past	Erin	enough money			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	send	to-infinitive	Erin not said here	widow	school		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to school=Destination
4	is	past	widow			enough, old property	tree rules
5	apprentice	to-infinitive	Erin not said here	widow		to any trade; soon property	vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	choose	would	widow	any trade not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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