The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 247

I might have every day half a basinful, and would my master be any the poorer?

Who acts: I, master · What happens: have, be · To what, where: basinful

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, master), 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:pg641:1352): 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl:unmarked
6	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	8 basinful	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 basinful	det
8	basinful	basinful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 poorer	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 poorer	cc
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 poorer	aux
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 master	nmod:poss
13	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 poorer	nsubj
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 poorer	cop
15	any	any	ADV	_	17 poorer	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 poorer	det
17	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 have	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	might	I	half basinful			day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basinful=Patient
2	is	would	my master					any, poor property	tree rules

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: 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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