The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 42

‘I will buy these six cabbages, but, as you see, I can only walk with my stick and can carry nothing.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: buy, see, walk, carry · To what, where: six cabbages, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 buy	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 buy	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 buy	aux
4	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 cabbages	det
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 cabbages	nummod
7	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buy	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 walk	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 walk	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 but	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 see	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
13	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 walk	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 walk	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 walk	aux
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 walk	advmod
18	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 buy	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 stick	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 stick	nmod:poss
21	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walk	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 carry	cc
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 carry	aux
24	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 buy	conj
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 carry	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 buy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	buy	future	I	this six cabbages		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Theme
2	see	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	walk	can	I		with my stick	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry	can	I not said here	nothing		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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 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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