The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 190

And they afterwards heard that she spent the rest of her life in trying to put the handful of gold the Prince had thrown to her into her money-bag.

Who acts: lamentations, cow, gold · What happens: hear, spend, try, put, throw · To what, where: rest, handful, money bag, Prince, cow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamentations, cow, gold), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 heard	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	4 heard	advmod
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 spent	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spent	nsubj
7	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rest	det
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 life	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 life	nmod:poss
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rest	nmod
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 trying	mark
14	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 spent	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 put	mark
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 trying	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 handful	det
18	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 gold	case
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 handful	nmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Prince	det
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 thrown	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 thrown	aux
24	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 gold	acl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thrown	obl
27	into	into	ADP	_	31 bag	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 bag	nmod:poss
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bag	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 money	punct
31	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	lamentations = lamentation				afterwards property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	spend	past	cow	the rest of cow's life				vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset
3	try	gerund	cow not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	cow not said here	the handful of gold		cow's money bag		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent handful=Goal
5	throw	past · perfect · passive	gold not said here	the Prince	cow			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme to she=Destination

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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