The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 69
A merchant has always a use for that.’
Who acts: merchant · What happens: have · To what, where: use
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 (merchant), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 use | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 use | det |
| 6 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 use | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 3 has | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a merchant | a use | for that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=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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