The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 5

They were all very poor, and at last things got so bad that they really had not enough to eat.

Who acts: Peppe · What happens: be, get, eat · To what, where: last things

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peppe), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poor	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poor	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 poor	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 poor	advmod
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 things	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 got	obl
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poor	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 bad	advmod
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 enough	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 enough	nsubj
16	really	really	ADV	_	19 enough	advmod
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 enough	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 enough	advmod
19	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bad	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 enough	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Peppe		all, poor property	tree rules
2	get	past	Peppe not said here	last things	bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	eat	to-infinitive	Peppe not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «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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