The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 27

‘Rubbish! why there is enough there to buy ten kingdoms.’

What happens: be, buy · To what, where: ten kingdoms

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. 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	_	2 Rubbish	punct
2	Rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Rubbish	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 is	advmod
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Rubbish	acl:relcl
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 is	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 buy	mark
10	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 there	advcl
11	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 kingdoms	nummod
12	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 buy	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Rubbish	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Rubbish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present				there; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	buy	to-infinitive		ten kingdoms					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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