The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 109
Why, I have gold and diamonds now, as much as I want.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, diamond, want · To what, where: gold, much
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 have | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 diamonds | advcl |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 diamonds | cc |
| 7 | diamonds | diamond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 diamonds | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 much | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 diamonds | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 want | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 much | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 diamonds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | gold | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient | ||||
| 2 | diamond | present | much | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | present | I | 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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