The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 10
They were very poor, and earned their living by spinning.
Who acts: sisters · What happens: be, earn, spin, live · To what, where: living
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters), 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 poor | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 poor | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 poor | advmod |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 earned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 earned | cc |
| 7 | earned | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 poor | advcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 living | nmod:poss |
| 9 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 earned | obj |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 spinning | mark |
| 11 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 earned | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sisters = sister | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | earn | past | sisters = sister not said here | sisters's living | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spin | gerund | sisters = sister not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | live | sisters = sister | nom living «cognition intransitive»: 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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