The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 42

When he told his story the youngest said to himself, ‘I am not rich enough to support us all three.

Who acts: man, I · What happens: tell, say, not be, support · To what, where: story, man, us · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 story	nmod:poss
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youngest	det
7	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 told	ccomp
8	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 youngest	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 rich	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 rich	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 rich	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 rich	advmod
16	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	conj
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 rich	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 support	mark
19	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 rich	advcl
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 support	obj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 three	det
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 support	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	man	man's story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	participle			man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	not is	present	I			enough, rich property	tree rules
4	support	to-infinitive	I not said here	us			tree rules

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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