The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 2

They only just managed to live from hand to mouth, and had great difficulty in doing even so much as that, but they had three sons, and the youngest of them was called Cinderlad, for he did nothing else but lie and poke about among the ashes.

Who acts: folks, great difficulty, Cinderlad · What happens: manage, live, have, do, call, lie · To what, where: hand, great difficulty, much, three sons, youngest, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folks, great difficulty, Cinderlad), 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 managed	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 managed	advmod
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 managed	advmod
4	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 live	mark
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 managed	xcomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 hand	case
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 live	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 live	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 managed	conj
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 difficulty	amod
15	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	in	in	SCONJ	_	17 doing	mark
17	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 difficulty	acl
18	even	even	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 doing	obj
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 much	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 managed	parataxis
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 sons	nummod
28	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 called	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 called	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 youngest	det
32	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 called	nsubj:pass
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 youngest	nmod
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 called	aux:pass
36	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 managed	parataxis
37	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 called	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 did	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 did	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 did	nsubj
41	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 managed	parataxis
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	41 did	obj
43	else	else	ADV	_	42 nothing	advmod
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 lie	cc
45	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 did	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 poke	cc
47	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 lie	conj
48	about	about	ADV	_	47 poke	advmod
49	among	among	ADP	_	51 ashes	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 ashes	det
51	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 poke	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	manage	past	folks = folk				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	live	to-infinitive	folks = folk not said here		hand	to mouth	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	folks = folk not said here	great difficulty			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient
4	do	gerund	great difficulty not said here	much			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality
5	have	past	folks = folk	three sons			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
6	call	past · passive		the youngest of folks			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
7	do	past	Cinderlad	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
8	lie	infinitive	Cinderlad not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	poke about	infinitive	Cinderlad not said here		the ashes	about property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent among ash=Location

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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