The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 2

The two eldest of these lived in rioting and feasting, and thus wasted and squandered their father’s wealth till nothing remained, and they found themselves in want and misery.

Who acts: eldest, rioting · What happens: live, waste, squander, remain, find · To what, where: rioting, wealth, want

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, rioting), 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 eldest	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 eldest	nsubj
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 lived	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 these	case
5	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 eldest	nmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 rioting	case
8	rioting	rioting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feasting	cc
10	feasting	feasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rioting	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wasted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wasted	cc
13	thus	thus	ADV	_	14 wasted	advmod
14	wasted	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 squandered	cc
16	squandered	squander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wasted	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wealth	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 father	case
20	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 squandered	obj
21	till	till	ADP	_	22 nothing	case
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 squandered	obl
23	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 nothing	acl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 found	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 found	nsubj
27	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wasted	conj
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 found	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 want	case
30	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 found	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 misery	cc
32	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 want	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	participle	the eldest of these		rioting and feasting			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rioting=Location
2	waste	past					thus property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	squander	past		rioting's father's wealth		till nothing		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Asset
4	remain	participle						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	past	rioting	rioting	want and misery			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic

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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