The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 98

Will the tired old man have to row much longer?”’

Who acts: tired old man · What happens: have, row

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 (tired old man), 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	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 row	mark
8	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	xcomp
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 longer	advmod
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 row	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	future	the tired old man						tree rules
2	row	to-infinitive	the tired old man not said here					long property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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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