The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 75
‘Oh, what a good-for-nothing fellow to want to spend all the money himself!
What happens: want, spend · To what, where: money
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 what | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fellow | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fellow | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 fellow | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 fellow | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 for | punct |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 fellow | compound |
| 11 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 want | mark |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fellow | acl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 spend | mark |
| 15 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 want | xcomp |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 money | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 money | det |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spend | obj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 spend | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | to-infinitive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | spend not said to happen | to-infinitive | all money | fellow obl | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
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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