--- title: The young man had spent his whole fortune on it, and now it was all… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The young man had spent his whole fortune on it, and now it was all swallowed up, was forced to beg shelter from his youngest brother. Who acts: young man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/19/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/19/) / 41 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 41 The young man had spent his whole fortune on it, and now it was all swallowed up, was forced to beg shelter from his youngest brother. **Who acts:** young man · **What happens:** spend, swallow up, force, beg · **To what, where:** whole fortune, fortune, shelter This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg5615:19:41 # text = The young man had spent his whole fortune on it, and now it was all swallowed up, was forced to beg shelter from his youngest brother. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 16 all all ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 beg beg VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | past · perfect | the young man | man's whole fortune | | fortune | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent fortune=Asset on it=Goal | | 2 | **swallow up** | past · passive | | fortune | | | now | all *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **force** | past · passive | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: clause=Topic | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | | shelter | | | | from man's youngest brother | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent shelter=Recipient | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/19/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/19/42/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/19/)