The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 116
“If it cannot be bought either for gold or money, what will buy it?
What happens: not buy, buy · To what, where: apple
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 16 buy | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 bought | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bought | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 bought | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bought | aux:pass |
| 7 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 buy | advcl |
| 8 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 10 gold | cc:preconj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bought | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 money | cc |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gold | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bought | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 buy | obj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 buy | aux |
| 16 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 buy | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not buy a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can · passive | apple | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary gold=Theme | |||||
| 2 | buy in a quote | future | apple | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary it=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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