English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 36

They all had something that they were willing to venture except poor Dick, who had neither money nor goods, and therefore could send nothing.

Who acts: servants, poor Dick · What happens: have, be, venture, send · To what, where: something, money, nothing

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 (servants, poor Dick), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 had	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 willing	nsubj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 willing	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 willing	cop
8	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 something	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 venture	mark
10	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 willing	xcomp
11	except	except	ADP	_	13 Dick	case
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Dick	amod
13	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 venture	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Dick	acl:relcl
17	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 money	cc:preconj
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 goods	cc
20	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	18 money	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 send	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 send	cc
23	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	25 send	advmod
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 send	aux
25	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 send	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	servants = servant	something		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	is	past			willing property	tree rules
3	venture	to-infinitive			except poor Dick	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	poor Dick	money nor goods		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
5	send	could	servants = servant not said here	nothing	therefore property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

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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