The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 14

But in Hans he had met his match, and the minister soon found to his cost that in his case at any rate a full cup did not mean an empty plate.

Who acts: minister, cost · What happens: meet, find, not mean, cost · To what, where: match, Hans, empty plate

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (minister, cost), 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	_	6 met	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Hans	case
3	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 met	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 met	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 met	aux
6	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 match	nmod:poss
8	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 minister	det
12	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	nsubj
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 found	advmod
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 met	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 cost	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 cost	nmod:poss
17	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 mean	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 case	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 case	nmod:poss
21	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mean	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 rate	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 rate	det
24	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 case	nmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cup	det
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cup	amod
27	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mean	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 mean	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 mean	advmod
30	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cost	acl:relcl
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 plate	det
32	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 plate	amod
33	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mean	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past · perfect	minister	minister's match	Hans		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Co-Agent
2	find	past	the minister			to minister's cost; soon property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	not mean	past · do-support	minister's cost	a empty plate		in minister's case at any rate	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot plate=Theme in case=Attribute
4	cost		minister				nom cost «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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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