The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 30

Are you rich enough to feed and clothe them?’

Who acts: you · What happens: be, feed, clothe · To what, where: children

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. 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	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rich	cop
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 rich	nsubj
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 rich	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 feed	mark
6	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rich	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 clothe	cc
8	clothe	clothe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 feed	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 clothe	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 rich	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	you		enough, rich property	tree rules
2	feed	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	clothe	infinitive	you not said here	children = child		vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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