The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 111

Long ago there lived two brothers, both of them very handsome, and both so very poor that they seldom had anything to eat but the fish which they caught.

Who acts: joy · What happens: live, have, eat, catch · To what, where: two brothers, anything

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ago	advmod
2	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 there	advmod
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lived	advmod
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 brothers	nummod
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 handsome	punct
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 handsome	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 both	nmod
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 handsome	advmod
12	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lived	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 poor	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 poor	cc
15	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	18 poor	nsubj
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 poor	advmod
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 poor	advmod
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lived	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
21	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	22 had	advmod
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 poor	advcl
23	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 had	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 eat	mark
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 anything	acl
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 fish	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fish	det
28	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 anything	conj
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 caught	obj
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 caught	nsubj
31	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 anything	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		two brothers	there		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme brother=Location
2	have	past	joy	anything		seldom property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
3	eat	to-infinitive	joy not said here	anything not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	catch	past	joy				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme

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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