The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 47
“And if these are not enough, there are plenty more to be had for the asking.”
Who acts: these · What happens: not be, be, have, ask
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 (these), 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 | _ | 12 more | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 are | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 enough | mark |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 enough | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 enough | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 enough | advmod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 are | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 enough | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 are | expl |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 more | cop |
| 11 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 are | nsubj |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | aux:pass |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 more | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 asking | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 asking | det |
| 18 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 had | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 more | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | these | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | more property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP 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: «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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