The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 41
The young man had spent his whole fortune on it, and now it was all swallowed up, was forced to beg shelter from his youngest brother.
Who acts: young man · What happens: spend, swallow up, force, beg · To what, where: whole fortune, fortune, shelter
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spent | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spent | aux |
| 5 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fortune | amod |
| 8 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spent | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spent | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swallowed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 swallowed | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 swallowed | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 swallowed | advmod |
| 17 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 spent | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 forced | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 forced | aux:pass |
| 21 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 swallowed | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 beg | mark |
| 23 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 forced | xcomp |
| 24 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beg | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 brother | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brother | nmod:poss |
| 27 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 brother | amod |
| 28 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beg | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past · perfect | the young man | man's whole fortune | fortune | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent fortune=Asset on it=Goal | |||
| 2 | swallow up | past · passive | fortune | now | all property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | force | past · passive | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | shelter | from man's youngest brother | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent shelter=Recipient |
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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