The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 25
If you prefer gold, you can get that too, if you go into the third room, and as much as you like to carry.
Who acts: you · What happens: prefer, get, go, like, carry · To what, where: gold, that, third room
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. 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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:3275): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 prefer | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 prefer | nsubj |
| 3 | prefer | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | advcl |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prefer | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 prefer | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 get | obj |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | advcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 17 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 room | amod |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 much | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 much | cc |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 that | conj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 like | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 like | nsubj |
| 25 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 much | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 carry | mark |
| 27 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 like | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer a condition, not said to happen | present | you | gold | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | get | can | you | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the third room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | like | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | carry not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn carry-11.4 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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