The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 28

Her spinning-wheel and the milk of a cow, which she had purchased with the little money she had with her, sufficed for the scanty subsistence of herself and her little son.

Who acts: lady, spinning wheel · What happens: purchase, have, suffice · To what, where: cow, little money

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, spinning wheel), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wheel	nmod:poss
2	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wheel	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 spinning	punct
4	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sufficed	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 milk	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 milk	det
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wheel	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cow	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cow	det
10	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 milk	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 purchased	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 purchased	nsubj:pass
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 purchased	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 purchased	aux
15	purchased	purchase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cow	acl:relcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 money	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 money	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 money	amod
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 purchased	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 money	acl:relcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sufficed	punct
25	sufficed	suffice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 subsistence	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 subsistence	det
28	scanty	scanty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 subsistence	amod
29	subsistence	subsistence	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sufficed	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 herself	case
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 subsistence	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 son	cc
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 son	nmod:poss
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 son	amod
35	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 herself	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 sufficed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	purchase	past · perfect · passive		a cow	with the little money	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme
2	have	past	lady	the little money not said here	with cow	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
3	suffice	past	lady's spinning wheel and the milk of a cow		for the scanty subsistence	tree rules

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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