The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 4

The old woman determined to put by the money for a rainy day; but alas! the rainy day was close at hand, for their meal was all consumed, and who is prepared to face starvation with two hundred florins at their disposal?

Who acts: old woman · What happens: determine, put, be, consume, face · To what, where: old woman, hand, meal, starvation, disposal

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 (old woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 close	nsubj
4	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 woman	acl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 put	mark
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 determined	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 money	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 money	det
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 day	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 close	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 close	cc
16	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 close	nsubj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 close	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
19	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 day	amod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 close	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 close	cop
22	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 hand	case
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 close	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 consumed	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 consumed	mark
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 meal	nmod:poss
28	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 consumed	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 consumed	aux:pass
30	all	all	ADV	_	31 consumed	advmod
31	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 close	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 prepared	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 prepared	cc
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 prepared	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 prepared	cop
36	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 close	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 face	mark
38	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 prepared	xcomp
39	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 face	obj
40	with	with	ADP	_	43 florins	case
41	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 hundred	compound
42	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 florins	nummod
43	florins	florin	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 starvation	nmod
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 disposal	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 disposal	nmod:poss
46	disposal	disposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 face	obl
47	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 close	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	participle		the old woman not said here				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	put	to-infinitive				day	by the money	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by money=Destination
3	is	past	the old woman		hand		close property	tree rules
4	consume	past · passive		alas's meal			all property	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
5	is	present					prepared property	tree rules
6	face	to-infinitive		starvation	florins's disposal		with hundred florins	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent starvation=Destination with florin=Theme

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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