The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 24
He soon began to ask for money for the mere pleasure of it, and there was always as much as he needed.
Who acts: Don · What happens: begin, ask, be, need, please · To what, where: pleasure
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 began | advmod |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ask | mark |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 money | case |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 pleasure | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pleasure | det |
| 10 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pleasure | amod |
| 11 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pleasure | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 much | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 much | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 much | expl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 much | cop |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 much | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 began | conj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 needed | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 needed | nsubj |
| 23 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 much | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Don | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Don not said here | for money; for the mere pleasure of pleasure | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Don not said here | there | always, much property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | need | past | Don | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | please | pleasure | nom pleasure «feeling 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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