The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 144

“Because we have no money to buy any food.”

Who acts: we · What happens: have, buy · To what, where: money, food

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
2	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 have	mark
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 money	det
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 buy	mark
8	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 money	acl
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 food	det
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 buy	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	we	no money					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
2	buy in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	any food					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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