The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 51
With all that he could buy up the whole town, and all the sugar pigs, all the tin soldiers, whips and rocking-horses in the whole world.
Who acts: heap · What happens: buy up · To what, where: whole town
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 (heap), 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:pg640:3296): 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 that | det:predet |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 buy | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 buy | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 buy | aux |
| 6 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 buy | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 town | amod |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buy | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pigs | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pigs | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 pigs | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pigs | det |
| 15 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pigs | compound |
| 16 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 town | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 soldiers | punct |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 soldiers | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 soldiers | det |
| 20 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 soldiers | compound |
| 21 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 town | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 whips | punct |
| 23 | whips | whip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 town | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 horses | cc |
| 25 | rocking | rocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 horses | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 rocking | punct |
| 27 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 town | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 30 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 world | amod |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 horses | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy up | could | heap | the whole town and all sugar pigs and all tin soldiers and whips and rocking horses in the whole world | with that | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=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 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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