The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 51
Now the poor brother had both the money and the mill again.
Who acts: poor brother · What happens: have · To what, where: money
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor brother), 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 | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 8 money | cc:preconj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 money | det |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mill | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mill | det |
| 11 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 money | conj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the poor brother | the money and the mill | now; again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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