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The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 92

They only consisted of some boy’s clothes, a small quantity of linen and food, and a little money in case of necessity.

Who acts: preparations · What happens: consist · To what, where: little money

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (preparations), 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

nsubjadvmodcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctdetamodconjcasenmodccconjpunctccdetamodoblcasenmodcasenmodpunctrootTheyPRONonlyADVconsistedVERBofADPsomeDETboyNOUN’sPARTclothesNOUN,PUNCTaDETsmallADJquantityNOUNofADPlinenNOUNandCCONJfoodNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaDETlittleADJmoneyNOUNinADPcaseNOUNofADPnecessityNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 consistednsubj
2onlyonlyADV_3 consistedadvmod
3consistedconsistVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4ofofADP_8 clothescase
5somesomeDETPronType=Ind6 boydet
6boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing8 clothesnmod:poss
7’s'sPART_6 boycase
8clothesclothesNOUNNumber=Ptan3 consistedobl
9,,PUNCT_12 quantitypunct
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 quantitydet
11smallsmallADJDegree=Pos12 quantityamod
12quantityquantityNOUNNumber=Sing8 clothesconj
13ofofADP_14 linencase
14linenlinenNOUNNumber=Sing12 quantitynmod
15andandCCONJ_16 foodcc
16foodfoodNOUNNumber=Sing12 quantityconj
17,,PUNCT_21 moneypunct
18andandCCONJ_21 moneycc
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 moneydet
20littlelittleADJDegree=Pos21 moneyamod
21moneymoneyNOUNNumber=Sing3 consistedobl
22ininADP_23 casecase
23casecaseNOUNNumber=Sing21 moneynmod
24ofofADP_25 necessitycase
25necessitynecessityNOUNNumber=Sing23 casenmod
26..PUNCT_3 consistedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1consistpastpreparations = preparationa little money in case of necessityof some boy's clothes and a small quantity of linen and foodtree 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 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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