Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 28
Have you any money to spare for my merry men and me?"
Who acts: you · What happens: have, spare · To what, where: money
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. 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 money | det |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Have | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 spare | mark |
| 6 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 money | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 men | nmod:poss |
| 9 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spare | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 me | cc |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Have | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | any money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 2 | spare | to-infinitive | you not said here | any money not said here | for my merry men | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: 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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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