The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 191

‘Good-day, mother, what have you to sell?’

Who acts: you · 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: who acts (you), 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	_	12 sell	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sell	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sell	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 sell	obj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sell	aux
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 sell	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sell	mark
12	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 sell	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	you				day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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