The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 11

As they were too poor to have any servants, the girls had to work hard, like peasants, and the sons, for their part, cultivated the fields to earn their living.

Who acts: friends, girls · What happens: be, have, work, cultivate, earn, live · To what, where: servants, fields, living

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, 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 (friends, girls), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 poor	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poor	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poor	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 poor	advmod
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 poor	advcl
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 servants	det
9	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girls	det
12	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poor	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 work	mark
15	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 work	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 peasants	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 peasants	case
19	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 work	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sons	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sons	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sons	det
23	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 part	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 part	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 part	nmod:poss
27	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sons	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cultivated	punct
29	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 sons	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fields	det
31	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cultivated	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 earn	mark
33	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 cultivated	advcl
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 living	nmod:poss
35	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 earn	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	friends = friend		poor property	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	friends = friend not said here	any servants		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient
3	have	past	the girls			tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	the girls not said here		like peasants; hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cultivate	participle	the girls not said here	the fields		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Product
6	earn	to-infinitive	the girls not said here	friends's living		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme
7	live		friends = friend			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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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