The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 6

So the father called his sons, and said to them, ‘ My dear boys, I am too old to work any more, and there is nothing left for me but to beg in the streets.’

Who acts: father, dear boys, nothing · What happens: call, say, be, work, leave, beg · To what, where: sons, streets · 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 (father, dear boys, nothing), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 called	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sons	nmod:poss
6	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 old	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 old	punct
14	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 boys	nmod:poss
15	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boys	amod
16	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 old	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boys	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 old	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 old	cop
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 old	advmod
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 work	mark
23	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 old	advcl
24	any	any	ADV	_	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 work	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 is	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 is	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 is	expl
29	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 called	conj
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 is	nsubj
31	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 nothing	acl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 left	obl
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 beg	cc
35	to	to	PART	_	36 beg	mark
36	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 left	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 streets	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 streets	det
39	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 beg	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 is	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past	the father	father's sons			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the father not said here	sons = son			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
3	is	present	My dear boys			old property	tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	My dear boys not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	be	present	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	participle				for me	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for i=Recipient
7	beg speech: request	to-infinitive			the streets		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: 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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