The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 68

‘Oh, yes,’ said the merchant; ‘I want nothing so much as money.

Who acts: I · What happens: say, want · To what, where: merchant, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Oh	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 merchant	det
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
13	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 want	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 want	obj
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 money	case
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 much	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the merchant					tree rules
2	want	present	I	nothing					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme much=Attribute

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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