The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 81

But as he was always spending money, and never made any more, at last the day came when he had nothing left but two shillings, and he had to leave the beautiful rooms in which he had been living, and go into a little attic under the roof, and clean his own boots, and mend them with a darning-needle.

Who acts: soldier, last · What happens: spend, not make, come, have, leave, live · To what, where: money, nothing, beautiful rooms, own boots, shillings

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, last), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 spending	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spending	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spending	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 spending	advmod
6	spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 made	advcl
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spending	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 made	advmod
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	any	any	ADV	_	13 more	advmod
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 made	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 came	nsubj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 last	obl:unmarked
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	conj
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 had	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	advcl
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 had	obj
24	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 nothing	acl
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 shillings	cc
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 shillings	nummod
27	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 left	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 leave	mark
33	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 rooms	det
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 rooms	amod
36	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 leave	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 living	obl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 living	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 living	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 living	aux
42	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 rooms	acl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 go	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 go	cc
45	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 leave	advcl
46	into	into	ADP	_	49 attic	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 little	det
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 attic	obl:unmarked
49	attic	attic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 go	xcomp
50	under	under	ADP	_	52 roof	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 roof	det
52	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 attic	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 clean	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 clean	cc
55	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 made	parataxis
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 boots	nmod:poss
57	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 boots	amod
58	boots	boots	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 clean	obj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 mend	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 mend	cc
61	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 clean	conj
62	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 mend	obj
63	with	with	ADP	_	67 needle	case
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	67 needle	det
65	darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 needle	compound
66	-	-	PUNCT	_	65 darning	punct
67	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 mend	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spend	past · progressive	soldier	money		always property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
2	not make	past					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	come	past	last				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	soldier	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	leave	participle					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	past	soldier				tree rules
7	leave	to-infinitive	soldier not said here	the beautiful rooms			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
8	live	past · perfect · progressive	soldier		the beautiful rooms		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
9	go	infinitive	soldier not said here			attic property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	clean	infinitive		soldier's own boots			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boots=Patient
11	mend	infinitive		shillings = shilling		with a darning needle	tree rules

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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