The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 27
Jack’s mother was very glad to get the money, but she did not like him to run any risk for her.
Who acts: mother · What happens: be, get, not like, run · To what, where: money, Jack, risk
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 (mother), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jack | case |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glad | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 glad | advmod |
| 6 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 money | det |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 like | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 like | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 like | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 like | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 like | advmod |
| 16 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 like | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 run | mark |
| 19 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 like | xcomp |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 risk | det |
| 21 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 run | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 run | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jack's mother | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Jack's mother not said here | the money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not like | past · do-support | mother | Jack | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run not said to happen | to-infinitive | mother not said here | any risk | for mother | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent risk=Product for she=Beneficiary |
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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