The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a man who wasted all his money, and grew so poor that his only food was a few grains of corn, which he scratched like a fowl from out of a dust-heap.

Who acts: man, only food, few grains · What happens: live, waste, grow, be, scratch · To what, where: man, money, few grains, dust heap

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, only food, few grains), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 lived	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 wasted	nsubj
10	wasted	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 money	det:predet
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 money	nmod:poss
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wasted	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grew	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 grew	cc
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 poor	advmod
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grew	xcomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 grains	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 food	nmod:poss
21	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 food	amod
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grains	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 grains	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 grains	det
25	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grains	amod
26	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 poor	advcl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 corn	case
28	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grains	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 scratched	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 scratched	nsubj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 scratched	nsubj
32	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 grains	conj
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 fowl	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 fowl	det
35	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 scratched	obl
36	from	from	ADP	_	42 heap	case
37	out	out	ADP	_	42 heap	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	42 heap	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 heap	det
40	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 heap	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 dust	punct
42	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 scratched	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a man	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	waste	past	a man	man's money				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
3	grow	past					poor property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past	man's only food	a few grains			of corn	tree rules
5	scratch	past	a few grains		a dust heap		like a fowl	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from heap=Source

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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