The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 9

Once upon a time there lived a shoemaker who could get no work to do, and was so poor that he and his wife nearly died of hunger.

Who acts: shoemaker, work, Sicilianische · What happens: live, get, do, be, die · To what, where: shoemaker, work

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoemaker, work, Sicilianische), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 lived	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shoemaker	det
8	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 get	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 shoemaker	acl:relcl
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 work	det
13	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 get	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 poor	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 poor	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 poor	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 poor	advmod
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lived	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 died	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 died	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wife	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wife	nmod:poss
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 he	conj
26	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	27 died	advmod
27	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 poor	advcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 hunger	case
29	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 died	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a shoemaker	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme shoemaker=Location
2	get	could	a shoemaker	no work				tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	no work not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past					poor property	tree rules
5	die	past	Sicilianische				of hunger; nearly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer

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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