The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 44

I only have three peas for my day’s provision, so unless you wish to fast you must go elsewhere.’

Who acts: I, you, day · What happens: have, wish, fast, go, provide · To what, where: three peas

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, day), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 peas	nummod
5	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 provision	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 day	nmod:poss
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 provision	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 day	case
10	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 peas	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wish	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 wish	advmod
13	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	15 wish	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 wish	nsubj
15	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fast	mark
17	fast	fast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wish	xcomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fast	ccomp
21	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	three peas	for my day's provision	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient
2	wish	present	you			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	fast not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
4	go	must	you		elsewhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	provide		my day			nom provision «communication intransitive»: poss=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 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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