The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 33

This was at the time when half a pint of brandy cost threepence, so that was just a penny from each of them.

Who acts: This, pint, that · What happens: be, cost · To what, where: threepence, penny, each

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, pint, that), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 cost	mark
7	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	9 pint	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pint	det
9	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cost	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 brandy	case
11	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pint	nmod
12	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 time	advcl
13	threepence	threepence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cost	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 penny	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	_	20 penny	mark
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 penny	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 penny	cop
18	just	just	ADV	_	20 penny	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 penny	det
20	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cost	obl
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 each	case
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 penny	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 each	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is	past	This			at the time	tree rules
2	cost	present	half pint of brandy	threepence			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme threepence=Value
3	is a	past	that	a penny	each		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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