The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 42

‘My old aunt died last night, without leaving money enough to buy peas to give the watchers, as is the custom throughout the country.

Who acts: old aunt · What happens: die, leave, buy, give, be · To what, where: money, peas, watchers

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (old aunt), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 aunt	nmod:poss
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 aunt	amod
4	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 leaving	punct
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 leaving	mark
10	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 died	advcl
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaving	obj
12	enough	enough	ADV	_	10 leaving	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 buy	mark
14	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 leaving	advcl
15	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 buy	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 give	mark
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 buy	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 watchers	det
19	watchers	watcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 give	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 custom	punct
21	as	as	ADP	_	24 custom	case
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 custom	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 custom	det
24	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	obl
25	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	27 country	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 country	det
27	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 custom	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	My old aunt		night		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	leave	gerund	My old aunt not said here	money		enough property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	buy	to-infinitive	My old aunt not said here	peas			tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive	My old aunt not said here	the watchers			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watcher=Theme
5	is	present			throughout the country	as the custom	tree 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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