The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 80

He only eats and drinks, and won’t work, and he keeps all the money to himself.’

Who acts: husband · What happens: eat, drink, not work, keep · To what, where: money, husband

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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	3 eats	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eats	advmod
3	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drinks	cc
5	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eats	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 work	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 work	cc
8	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 work	aux
9	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 work	advmod
10	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 drinks	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 keeps	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 keeps	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 keeps	nsubj
14	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eats	conj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 money	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 money	det
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keeps	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 himself	case
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 keeps	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eats	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 eats	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	eat	present	husband			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	present	husband not said here			tree rules
3	not work	future	husband not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	keep	present	husband	all money	husband	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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 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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