The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 84
Very soon Ciccu had spent all the money he had by him, and could get no more without the help of his purse.
Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: spend, have, get, help · To what, where: money, more, purse
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 (Ciccu), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 spent | advmod |
| 3 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 spent | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spent | aux |
| 5 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 money | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 money | det |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spent | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 money | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spent | advcl |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 help | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 help | det |
| 21 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 purse | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 purse | nmod:poss |
| 24 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 help | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past · perfect | Ciccu | all money | soon property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | |||
| 2 | have | past | Ciccu | all money not said here | by intention | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | |||
| 3 | get | could | Ciccu not said here | more | without the help of Ciccu's purse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | help | Ciccu's purse | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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