The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 9
You ought to have as much money as you would like to carry!’
Who acts: You · What happens: have, like, carry · To what, where: much money
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.
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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 have | mark |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 money | amod |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 like | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 like | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 like | aux |
| 11 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 carry | mark |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 like | xcomp |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | ought | You | much money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 2 | like | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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