Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 29

I would put up with almost anything, to be Lord Mayor of London when I am a man, and to ride in a fine coach!

Who acts: I · What happens: put up, be, ride · To what, where: Lord Mayor, man, fine coach

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 put	aux
3	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 put	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 anything	case
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 anything	advmod
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 put	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Mayor	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	12 Mayor	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 Mayor	cop
11	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Mayor	compound
12	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 London	case
14	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Mayor	nmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 man	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 man	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 man	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ride	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ride	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 ride	mark
23	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 put	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 coach	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 coach	det
26	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 coach	amod
27	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ride	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put up	would	I			with anything	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive		Lord Mayor		of London	tree rules
3	is a	present	I	a man			tree rules
4	ride	to-infinitive			a fine coach		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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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