English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 2

As poor Dick was not old enough to work, he was very badly off; he got but little for his dinner, and sometimes nothing at all for his breakfast; for the people who lived in the village were very poor indeed, and could not spare him much more than the parings of potatoes, and now and then a hard crust of bread.

Who acts: Dick, people · What happens: not be, work, be, get, live, not spare · To what, where: nothing, village, Dick

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick, people), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 Dick	case
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Dick	amod
3	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 old	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 work	mark
9	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 old	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 off	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 off	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 off	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 badly	advmod
14	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 off	advmod
15	off	off	ADV	_	6 old	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	parataxis
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 little	cc
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 got	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 dinner	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 dinner	nmod:poss
23	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 little	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 nothing	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 nothing	cc
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 nothing	advmod
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 got	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 nothing	nmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 breakfast	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 breakfast	nmod:poss
32	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 all	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 poor	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 people	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 people	det
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 poor	nsubj
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 lived	nsubj
38	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 people	acl:relcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 village	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 village	det
41	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lived	obl
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 poor	cop
43	very	very	ADV	_	44 poor	advmod
44	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	parataxis
45	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	44 poor	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 spare	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 spare	cc
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 spare	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 spare	advmod
50	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 poor	conj
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 spare	obj
52	much	much	ADV	_	53 more	advmod
53	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	50 spare	advmod
54	than	than	ADP	_	56 parings	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 parings	det
56	parings	paring	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 more	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 potatoes	case
58	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 parings	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 crust	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 crust	cc
61	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	66 crust	advmod
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 crust	cc
63	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	66 crust	advmod
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 crust	det
65	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 crust	amod
66	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	conj
67	of	of	ADP	_	68 bread	case
68	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 crust	nmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past				as poor Dick; enough, old property	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Dick			badly, off property	tree rules
4	get	past	Dick	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	live	past	the people		the village		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location
6	is	past	the people			indeed, poor property	tree rules
7	not spare	could	the people not said here	Dick			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Asset

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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