The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 16
Indeed, he spent so much that very soon there was none left, and Don Giovanni, instead of being a rich man with everything he could wish for, was forced to put on the dress of a pilgrim, and to wander from place to place begging his bread.
Who acts: father, none, Don, place · What happens: spend, be, leave, wish, force, put · To what, where: Don, dress, place, bread
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, none, Don, place), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 spent | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spent | nsubj |
| 4 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 spent | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 was | mark |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 soon | advmod |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 was | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spent | advcl |
| 12 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 was | nsubj |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 none | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 forced | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 forced | cc |
| 16 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | Giovanni | Giovanni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Don | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 man | punct |
| 19 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 24 man | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 instead | fixed |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 man | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Don | appos |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 everything | case |
| 26 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 man | nmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 wish | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 wish | aux |
| 29 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 everything | acl:relcl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 wish | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Don | punct |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 forced | aux:pass |
| 33 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spent | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 put | mark |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 forced | xcomp |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 dress | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 dress | det |
| 38 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 put | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 pilgrim | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 pilgrim | det |
| 41 | pilgrim | pilgrim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dress | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 wander | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 wander | cc |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 wander | mark |
| 45 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 forced | conj |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 place | case |
| 47 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 wander | obl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 place | case |
| 49 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 wander | obl |
| 50 | begging | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 49 place | acl |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 bread | nmod:poss |
| 52 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 begging | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | father | indeed property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be | past | none | there | soon property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | gerund | instead a rich man; with everything | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wish | could | Don | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | force | past · passive | Don | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | put | to-infinitive | Don not said here | the dress of a pilgrim | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination | ||||
| 8 | wander | to-infinitive | place | to place | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination | ||||
| 9 | beg speech: request | gerund | place not said here | Don's bread | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent bread=Recipient |
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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