The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 6
The clerk could have a hundred dollars to begin with to buy the books.
Who acts: clerk · What happens: have, begin, buy · To what, where: hundred dollars, books
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 (clerk), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 clerk | det |
| 2 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hundred | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 dollars | nummod |
| 7 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 begin | mark |
| 9 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 begin | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 buy | mark |
| 12 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 begin | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 books | det |
| 14 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 buy | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | could | the clerk | hundred dollars | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Patient | ||||
| 2 | begin | to-infinitive | the clerk not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | buy | to-infinitive | the clerk not said here | the books | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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 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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