The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 114

It would have been better to save enough to feed yourself, and not come begging to those who want all they have for themselves.

Who acts: It, women · What happens: be, save, feed, not come, beg, want · To what, where: enough, yourself, all

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, women), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 better	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 better	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 better	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 better	cop
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 save	mark
7	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 better	csubj
8	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 save	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 feed	mark
10	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 enough	advcl
11	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 feed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 come	advmod
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 save	conj
16	begging	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 come	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 those	case
18	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 begging	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 want	nsubj
20	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 those	acl:relcl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 want	obj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 all	acl:relcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 themselves	case
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 have	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	It		good property	tree rules
2	save	to-infinitive		enough		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Theme
3	feed	to-infinitive		yourself		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient
4	not come	infinitive				tree rules
5	beg speech: request	gerund			to those	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
6	want	present		all		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot all=Theme
7	have	present	women = woman		for women = woman	vn birth-28.2-1 «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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