The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 45
Take a good sum of money with you, too; for who knows but what he may want some cash now that he has turned a merchant!’
Who acts: you, man · What happens: take, know, want, turn, sum · To what, where: good sum, cash, merchant, money
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 (you, man), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sum | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sum | amod |
| 4 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 money | case |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sum | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 too | punct |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 knows | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 knows | mark |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 knows | nsubj |
| 14 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 want | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 want | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 want | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 want | aux |
| 19 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 knows | conj |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 cash | det |
| 21 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 want | obj |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 want | advmod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 turned | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 turned | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 turned | aux |
| 26 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 want | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 merchant | det |
| 28 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turned | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | a good sum of money | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | want | may | man | some cash | now | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme cash=Attribute | |||
| 4 | turn | present · perfect | man | a merchant | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent merchant=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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