The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 2

He had always little enough to live on, and once, when there was a great famine in the land, he couldn’t even provide them with daily bread.

Who acts: boy, great famine · What happens: have, live on, be, not provide · To what, where: little, children

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, great famine), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	obj
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 little	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 live	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 provide	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 provide	cc
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 provide	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 once	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 was	advmod
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 provide	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 famine	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 famine	amod
18	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 land	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 land	det
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 famine	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 provide	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 provide	aux
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 provide	advmod
26	even	even	ADV	_	27 provide	advmod
27	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 provide	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 bread	case
30	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bread	amod
31	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 provide	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	boy	little			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient
2	live on	to-infinitive	boy not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	past	a great famine in the land		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not provide	could	boy	children = child		with daily bread; once property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with 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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