The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 70
Take as much gold, silver, and precious stones as you choose.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take, choose · To what, where: much gold
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gold | amod |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 silver | punct |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gold | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stones | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stones | cc |
| 9 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stones | amod |
| 10 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gold | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 choose | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 choose | nsubj |
| 13 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | much gold and silver and precious stones | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | choose | present | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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