The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 17

He is the seventh son, and the eldest is only seven years old, and they hardly have a mouthful amongst them all.

Who acts: boy, eldest, dogs · What happens: be, have · To what, where: seventh son, mouthful

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 (boy, eldest, dogs), 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	5 son	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 son	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 son	det
4	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 son	amod
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 old	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 old	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eldest	det
9	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 old	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 old	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 seven	advmod
12	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 old	obl:unmarked
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 son	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	19 have	advmod
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 son	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mouthful	det
21	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
22	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 mouthful	nmod
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 them	nmod:unmarked
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	boy	the seventh son			tree rules
2	is	present	the eldest		year	old property	tree rules
3	have	present	dogs = dog	a mouthful		amongst servants = servant; hardly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=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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