The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 160

He helped the poor and fed and clothed the hungry and naked and all Mark’s riches became his.

Who acts: Mark, riches · What happens: help, clothe, become · To what, where: poor, hungry

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mark, riches), 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	2 helped	nsubj
2	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 poor	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 helped	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fed	cc
6	fed	fed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poor	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 clothed	cc
8	clothed	clothe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 helped	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hungry	det
10	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clothed	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 naked	cc
12	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hungry	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 became	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 Mark	det
15	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 riches	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Mark	case
17	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clothed	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 became	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 helped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	help	past	Mark	the poor	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Beneficiary
2	clothe	past	Mark not said here	the hungry	vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hungry=Patient
3	become	past	all Mark's riches		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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