The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 3

They were very poor, and their seven children incommoded them greatly, because not one of them was able to earn his bread.

Who acts: man, seven children, one · What happens: be, incommode, earn · To what, where: man, bread

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, seven children, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poor	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 poor	advmod
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 incommoded	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 incommoded	cc
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 children	nummod
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 incommoded	nsubj
10	incommoded	incommode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 incommoded	obj
12	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	10 incommoded	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 able	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 able	mark
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 able	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 one	nmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 able	cop
20	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poor	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 earn	mark
22	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 able	xcomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 bread	nmod:poss
24	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 earn	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	man		poor property	tree rules
2	incommode	past	man's seven children	man	greatly property	tree rules
3	is	past	one of man		able property	tree rules
4	earn	to-infinitive	one of man not said here	his bread		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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 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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