The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 122

A third of this money you must give to the poor, but the rest you may keep for yourself.’

Who acts: third, rest · What happens: give, keep · To what, where: poor

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third, rest), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 third	det
2	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 money	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 money	det
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 third	nmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 give	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 poor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 poor	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 give	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 keep	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 keep	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rest	det
15	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	nsubj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 keep	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 keep	aux
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 give	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 yourself	case
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 keep	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	must	a third of this money		the poor				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to poor=Recipient
2	keep	may	the rest					for yourself	vn keep-15.2 «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 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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