The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 11

He was getting on well with his learning, but another hundred dollars were needed, as they must have more books.

Who acts: man, dollars · What happens: get on, need, have · To what, where: hundred dollars, more books

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, dollars), 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	3 getting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 getting	aux
3	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 getting	compound:prt
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 getting	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 learning	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 learning	nmod:poss
8	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 getting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 needed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 needed	cc
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 dollars	det
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 dollars	nummod
13	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 needed	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 needed	aux:pass
15	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 getting	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 have	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 needed	parataxis
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 books	amod
22	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 have	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 getting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get on	past · progressive	man		with man's learning; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	need	past · passive		another hundred dollars		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
3	have	must	dollars = dollar	more books		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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 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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