The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 20

He was still a young man, and a strong handsome fellow to boot, but he had many little children and there was little to be earned by his trade.

Who acts: Basmus, little, trade · What happens: be, boot, have, earn, trade · To what, where: young man, many little children

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Basmus, little, trade), 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	6 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	6 man	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fellow	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fellow	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fellow	det
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fellow	amod
11	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fellow	amod
12	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 boot	mark
14	boot	boot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fellow	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	parataxis
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 children	amod
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 children	amod
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 had	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 was	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 had	conj
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 was	nsubj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 earned	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 earned	aux:pass
28	earned	earn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 little	advcl
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 trade	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 trade	nmod:poss
31	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 earned	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	Basmus	a young man		still	tree rules
2	boot	to-infinitive	Basmus not said here				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	Basmus	many little children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	be	past	little		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	earn	to-infinitive · passive	Basmus's trade				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	trade		Basmus				nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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