The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 88
‘This is a pretty kind of tinder-box, if I can get whatever I want like this.
Who acts: This, I · What happens: be, get, want · To what, where: pretty kind, whatever
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 (This, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | amod |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 box | case |
| 8 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 box | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tinder | punct |
| 10 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kind | conj |
| 16 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 want | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 want | nsubj |
| 18 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | ccomp |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 this | case |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 want | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a pretty kind | of tinder box | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get a condition, not said to happen | can | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | want | present | I | whatever | like this | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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