The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 146

“No, for every morning I go into the city to sell my veils, and with the few shillings I get for them I buy all we want.

Who acts: old woman, we · What happens: go, sell, get, buy, want · To what, where: city, veils

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 (old woman, 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	_	8 go	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 go	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 morning	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 city	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sell	mark
13	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	advcl
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 veils	nmod:poss
15	veils	veil	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sell	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 get	cc
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 shillings	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shillings	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shillings	amod
21	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 get	obl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 get	nsubj
23	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 go	parataxis
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 get	obl
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 buy	nsubj
27	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 get	conj
28	all	all	ADV	_	30 want	advmod
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 want	nsubj
30	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 buy	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present	the old woman = woman		the city	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into city=Initial_Location
2	sell in a quote	to-infinitive	the old woman = woman not said here	my veils				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme
3	get in a quote	present	the old woman = woman				with the few shillings; for shillings = shilling	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for they=Source
4	buy in a quote	present	the old woman = woman					vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	want in a quote	present	we				all property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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