The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 17
When you have spent it you must go and take another baron’s castle.’
Who acts: you · What happens: spend, go, take · To what, where: money, castle
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 spent | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 spent | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spent | aux |
| 4 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 go | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spent | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 baron | det |
| 12 | baron | baron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 castle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 baron | case |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present · perfect | you | money | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset | ||||
| 2 | go | must | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | you not said here | another baron's castle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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