The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 20

He ought to be ashamed of himself, when there was scarcely a handful of meal in the house, to have spent the money on a useless brute like that.

Who acts: Martin, handful · What happens: be, spend · To what, where: money, useless brute

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, handful), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ashamed	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ashamed	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	5 ashamed	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 ashamed	cop
5	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 ashamed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 was	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	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	5 ashamed	parataxis
12	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	11 was	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 handful	det
14	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 was	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 meal	case
16	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 handful	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 meal	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spent	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	23 spent	mark
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 spent	aux
23	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 ashamed	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 money	det
25	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spent	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 brute	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 brute	det
28	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 brute	amod
29	brute	brute	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spent	obl
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 that	case
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 brute	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ashamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	ought	Martin			of Martin; ashamed property	tree rules
2	be	past	a handful of meal in the house		there	scarcely property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	spend	to-infinitive · perfect	Martin not said here	the money		on a useless brute like that goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on brute=Goal

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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