The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 94

Life was sweet, and he was in the power of the king; so he gave up silently his ill-gotten goods, and was as poor as when he was a boy.

Who acts: Life, Ciccu · What happens: be, give up, get · To what, where: power, gotten goods, boy

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 (Life, 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	Life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sweet	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sweet	cop
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 power	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 power	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 power	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 power	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 power	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 power	det
10	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sweet	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 king	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 power	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 gave	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sweet	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 gave	compound:prt
19	silently	silently	ADV	_	17 gave	advmod
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 goods	nmod:poss
21	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 gotten	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 ill	punct
23	gotten	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 goods	amod
24	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 gave	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 poor	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 poor	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 poor	cop
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 poor	advmod
29	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sweet	conj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 boy	mark
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 boy	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 boy	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 boy	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 boy	det
35	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 poor	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sweet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Life			sweet property	tree rules
2	is	past	Ciccu		the power	of the king	tree rules
3	give up	past	Ciccu	Ciccu's gotten goods		silently property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Source
4	get	participle					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	Life not said here			poor property	tree rules
6	is a	past	Ciccu	a boy			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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