The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 149

We have a pair of old boots here with which you can go fifteen quarters of a mile at each step.

Who acts: We, you · What happens: have, go · To what, where: pair, fifteen quarters

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pair	det
4	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 boots	case
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boots	amod
7	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pair	nmod
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 boots	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 go	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 boots	parataxis
14	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 quarters	nummod
15	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 go	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 mile	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mile	det
18	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 quarters	nmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 step	case
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 step	det
21	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	We	a pair of old boots					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
2	go	can	you	fifteen quarters of a mile				with old boots; at each step	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location quarter=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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