The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 10

There was once a girl so poor that she had nothing to live on, and wandered about the world asking for charity.

Who acts: girl · What happens: be, have, live on, wander, ask · To what, where: nothing

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 poor	advmod
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 poor	advcl
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 live	mark
13	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 nothing	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 live	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wandered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wandered	cc
17	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wandered	obl
21	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 wandered	xcomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 charity	case
23	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asking	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a girl		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	girl	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	live on	to-infinitive	girl not said here	nothing not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wander	past	a girl not said here			about the world	tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	gerund	a girl not said here			for charity	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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