The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 3
Though all his life long he had toiled and moiled, he only left his widow and son two hundred florins.
Who acts: man · What happens: toil, moil, leave · To what, where: life, widow
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 (man), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 toiled | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 life | det:predet |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 toiled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 toiled | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 toiled | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 toiled | aux |
| 8 | toiled | toil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 left | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 moiled | cc |
| 10 | moiled | moil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 toiled | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 toiled | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | nsubj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 left | advmod |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 widow | nmod:poss |
| 16 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 son | cc |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 widow | conj |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 hundred | compound |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 florins | nummod |
| 21 | florins | florin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 left | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toil | past · perfect · passive | man's life | long property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | moil | participle | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | leave | past | man | man's widow and son | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent widow=Theme florin=Attribute |
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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