The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 31
He would not, of course, take the money out to count it, for that might bring him bad luck.
Who acts: bargain, that · What happens: not take out, count, bring · To what, where: money, bad luck, bargain
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bargain, that), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 take | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 take | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 not | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 8 take | advmod |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 of | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 of | punct |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 money | det |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 take | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 count | mark |
| 13 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 count | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bring | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 bring | mark |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 bring | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 bring | aux |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 count | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | obj |
| 21 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 luck | amod |
| 22 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bring | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take out | would | bargain | the money | out property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | |||
| 2 | count | to-infinitive | bargain not said here | money | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | might | that | bad luck | bargain | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination luck=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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