More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 14

Have you any brains for to sell?"

Who acts: you · What happens: have, sell · To what, where: brains

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Have	nsubj
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 brains	det
4	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Have	obj
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 sell	mark
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sell	mark
7	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 brains	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Have	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	you	any brains					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
2	sell	to-infinitive	you not said here	any brains not said here					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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