The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 27

But I will not go back to my wife just yet, as, if I only go on at this rate, I shall soon have enough money to buy a donkey.’

Who acts: I · What happens: not go back, go on, have, buy · To what, where: rate, enough money, donkey

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 go	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 wife	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	obl
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 yet	advmod
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
18	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	conj
19	on	on	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 rate	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 rate	det
22	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 have	advmod
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
28	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 money	amod
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 buy	mark
31	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 money	acl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 donkey	det
33	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 buy	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go back	future	I			yet		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	go on a condition, not said to happen	present	I		this rate			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at rate=Location
3	have	shall	I	enough money			soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
4	buy	to-infinitive	I not said here	a donkey				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=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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