The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 60

But if they had next to nothing of all else they had the blessing of God so far as children were concerned, and every year brought them one more.

Who acts: ’s, children, year · What happens: have, be, bring, bless · To what, where: blessing, ’s, God

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (’s, children, year), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	advcl
5	next	next	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 nothing	case
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 had	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 nothing	nmod
10	else	else	ADV	_	9 all	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 blessing	det
14	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 God	case
16	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 blessing	nmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 far	advmod
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 had	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 concerned	mark
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 concerned	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 concerned	cop
22	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 far	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brought	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 brought	cc
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 year	det
26	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brought	nsubj
27	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 brought	obj
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 more	nummod
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 brought	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	’s = '		next property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	’s = '	the blessing of God	to nothing; far property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Patient
3	is	past	children		concerned property	tree rules
4	bring	past	every year	’s = '		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination more=Theme
5	bless			God		nom blessing «act 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 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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