The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 98
I wager that a fine lady like you has more money than I have.
Who acts: I, fine lady · What happens: wager, have · To what, where: more money
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 (I, fine lady), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wager | nsubj |
| 2 | wager | wager | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 has | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 lady | nmod |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wager | ccomp |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 money | amod |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 money | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wager | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wager | present | I | vn risk-94 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | have | present | a fine lady like you | more money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | I | more money not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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 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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