The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 29
I have had to spend at least a hundred dollars of my own money to buy books for him before I got him so far on.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, spend, buy, get · To what, where: hundred dollars, books, man
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | aux |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 spend | mark |
| 5 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 least | case |
| 7 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 hundred | nmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hundred | det |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 dollars | nummod |
| 10 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spend | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 money | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 money | amod |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dollars | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 buy | mark |
| 16 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spend | advcl |
| 17 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 buy | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 buy | obl |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 got | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 got | nsubj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 buy | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 got | obj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 on | advmod |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 on | advmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADV | _ | 22 got | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | spend | to-infinitive | I not said here | hundred dollars of my own money | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Asset | ||||
| 3 | buy | to-infinitive | I not said here | books | for man | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent book=Theme for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | get | past | I | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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