The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 96

So he set off home, where his brothers still lived, and found them living very uncomfortably, for they had spent all their money, and did not know how to make any more.

Who acts: Ciccu, brothers · What happens: set off, live, find, spend, not know, make · To what, where: brothers, money, more · 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 (Ciccu, brothers), 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	_	3 set	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lived	punct
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 lived	advmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brothers	nmod:poss
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lived	nsubj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 lived	advmod
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	obj
16	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 found	xcomp
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 uncomfortably	advmod
18	uncomfortably	uncomfortably	ADV	_	16 living	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spent	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 spent	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 spent	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 spent	aux
23	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 found	parataxis
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 money	det:predet
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 money	nmod:poss
26	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spent	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 know	cc
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 know	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 know	advmod
31	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	conj
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 make	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 make	mark
34	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 know	ccomp
35	any	any	ADV	_	36 more	advmod
36	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 make	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set off	past	Ciccu			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	Ciccu's brothers		still		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	Ciccu not said here	brothers = brother			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme
4	live	gerund	brothers = brother not said here			uncomfortably property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	spend	past · perfect	brothers = brother	brothers's money			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
6	not know	past · do-support	Ciccu not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	make	to-infinitive		more			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset more=Product

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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