Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 20

Do you think," she would say, "that puss will sell for enough money to buy a stick to beat you?"

Who acts: you, cat, puss · What happens: think, say, sell, buy, beat · To what, where: stick, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cat, puss), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 think	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sell	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 sell	punct
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 puss	det
12	puss	puss	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sell	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sell	aux
14	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	ccomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 money	case
16	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 money	amod
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sell	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 buy	mark
19	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sell	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stick	det
21	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 buy	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 beat	mark
23	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 buy	advcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 beat	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	would	cat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sell	future	that puss		for enough money	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for money=Asset
4	buy	to-infinitive	that puss not said here	a stick		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
5	beat	to-infinitive	that puss not said here	you		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=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: «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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