The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 84

After several days he met his rival, the minister’s son, who had spent all his money and was reduced to the disagreeable employment of a carrier of dust and rubbish.

Who acts: son · What happens: meet, spend, reduce, employ · To what, where: rival, money, disagreeable employment, carrier

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 met	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 met	nsubj
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 rival	nmod:poss
7	rival	rival	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 son	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 minister	det
10	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 minister	case
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spent	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 spent	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spent	aux
16	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 son	acl:relcl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 money	det:predet
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 money	nmod:poss
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spent	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 reduced	cc
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 reduced	aux:pass
22	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 spent	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 employment	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 employment	det
25	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 employment	amod
26	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reduced	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 carrier	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 carrier	det
29	carrier	carrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 employment	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 dust	case
31	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carrier	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rubbish	cc
33	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carrier	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	son	son's rival	day	the minister's son obl	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rival=Co-Agent
2	spend	past · perfect	the minister's son	son's money			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
3	reduce	past · passive	the minister's son not said here			to the disagreeable employment of a carrier of dust and rubbish goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: to employment=Goal
4	employ			a carrier of dust and rubbish			nom employment «state transitive»: of=patient

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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