English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 41

Putting his hand to his pocket, the prince gave the woman all he had left, so that after their day's food, which cost what small spell Jack had by him, they were without a penny between them.

Who acts: prince, food, small spell, debts · What happens: put, give, leave, cost, have, be · To what, where: hand, all, woman, food

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, food, small spell, debts), 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	Putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 penny	csubj
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Putting	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 pocket	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pocket	nmod:poss
6	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Putting	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Putting	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	iobj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 gave	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 left	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 left	aux
16	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 all	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 food	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 that	advmod
19	that	that	ADV	_	24 food	nsubj
20	after	after	ADP	_	24 food	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 day	nmod:poss
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 food	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 day	case
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Putting	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cost	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 cost	nsubj
27	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 food	acl:relcl
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 cost	obj
29	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 spell	amod
30	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	nsubj
31	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 what	acl:relcl
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 had	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Putting	punct
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 penny	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 penny	cop
38	without	without	ADP	_	40 penny	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 penny	det
40	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
41	between	between	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 penny	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 penny	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	put	gerund		prince's hand		after debts's day's food	to prince's pocket	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
2	give	past	the prince	all	the woman			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient all=Theme
3	leave	past · perfect	prince					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cost	past	debts's day's food	debts's day's food				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value
5	have	past	small spell				by prince	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	debts = debt				without a penny; between numbers = number	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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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