The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 189

‘Fine wares to sell, fine wares to sell!’

What happens: sell

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. 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	_	3 wares	punct
2	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wares	amod
3	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sell	mark
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wares	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wares	punct
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wares	amod
8	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wares	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sell	mark
10	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wares	acl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 wares	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wares	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	to-infinitive							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	sell	to-infinitive							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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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