The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 54

But when they reached the town they found that the market was overstocked with firewood, and they did not sell enough to buy themselves a dinner, far less to get any food to carry home.

Who acts: brothers, food · What happens: reach, find, overstock, not sell, buy, get · To what, where: town, market, brothers, food · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (brothers, food), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 found	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 overstocked	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 market	det
11	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 overstocked	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 overstocked	aux:pass
13	overstocked	overstock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 found	ccomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 firewood	case
15	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 overstocked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sell	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sell	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sell	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sell	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 sell	advmod
21	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 found	ccomp
22	enough	enough	ADV	_	21 sell	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 buy	mark
24	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sell	advcl
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 buy	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dinner	det
27	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 buy	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 less	punct
29	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 less	advmod
30	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 sell	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 get	mark
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 less	advcl
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 food	det
34	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 carry	mark
36	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 get	xcomp
37	home	home	ADV	_	36 carry	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	brothers = brother	the town		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme
2	find	past	brothers = brother			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	overstock	past · passive		the market	with firewood	tree rules
4	not sell	past · do-support	brothers = brother		enough property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	buy	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here	brothers = brother		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary dinner=Theme
6	get	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here	any food		tree rules
7	carry	to-infinitive	any food not said here		home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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