The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 23

How can you afford to bring up the boy?

Who acts: you · What happens: afford, bring up · To what, where: boy

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 afford	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 afford	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 afford	nsubj
4	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bring	mark
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 afford	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 bring	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 afford	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	afford	can	you						tree rules
2	bring up	to-infinitive	you not said here	the boy					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boy=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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