The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 83

To him they gave all their wealth, and lived with him till their dying day.

Who acts: dollars · What happens: give, live, die · To what, where: wealth, man

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 (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	To	to	ADP	_	2 him	case
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 wealth	det:predet
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wealth	nmod:poss
7	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lived	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lived	cc
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lived	obl
13	till	till	ADP	_	16 day	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 day	nmod:poss
15	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	dollars = dollar	dollars's wealth	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme to he=Recipient
2	live	past	dollars = dollar not said here			day	with man	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location
3	die	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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