The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 44

Perhaps I could bear even that if I had any money, but I assure you that the expenses of the wedding have completely ruined me.

Who acts: I · What happens: bear, have, assure, ruin · To what, where: money, you, expenses

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 bear	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bear	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bear	aux
4	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	4 bear	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bear	advcl
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 money	det
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 assure	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 assure	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 assure	nsubj
15	assure	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bear	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 assure	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 ruined	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 expenses	det
19	expenses	expense	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 ruined	nsubj:pass
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 wedding	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wedding	det
22	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 expenses	nmod
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 ruined	aux
24	completely	completely	ADV	_	25 ruined	advmod
25	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 assure	advcl
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 ruined	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bear	could	I			perhaps property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	I	any money			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
3	assure	present	I		you		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	ruin	present · perfect · passive		the expenses of the wedding		completely property	tree rules

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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