The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 2

As he had, however, six sons and six daughters, he found that his money was not too much to let them all have everything they fancied, as they were accustomed to do.

Who acts: he, money, sons · What happens: have, find, not be, let, fancy, accustom · To what, where: six sons, everything, sons · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (he, money, sons), 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	_	3 had	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sons	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	8 sons	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sons	nummod
8	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 daughters	cc
10	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 daughters	nummod
11	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sons	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 much	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 money	nmod:poss
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 much	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 much	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 much	advmod
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 found	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 let	mark
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 much	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 have	advmod
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 let	ccomp
27	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 have	obj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fancied	nsubj
29	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 everything	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 accustomed	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 accustomed	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 accustomed	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 accustomed	aux:pass
34	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 fancied	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 do	mark
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 accustomed	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	six sons and six daughters		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	find	past	he			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	not is	past	his money		much property	tree rules
4	let	to-infinitive	his money not said here			tree rules
5	have	present	sons = son	everything	all property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
6	fancy	past	sons = son			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	accustom	past · passive		sons = son		tree rules
8	do	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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