The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 261
If I can manage to set her up with a pair, I will bet any money that I shall cease to want her for my wife.
Who acts: I, money · What happens: manage, set up, bet, cease, want · To what, where: heart, money
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, money), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 manage | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 manage | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 manage | aux |
| 4 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bet | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 set | mark |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 manage | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 set | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 pair | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pair | det |
| 11 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 manage | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bet | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bet | aux |
| 15 | bet | bet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 money | det |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bet | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 cease | nsubj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 cease | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 cease | aux |
| 21 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 money | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 want | mark |
| 23 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cease | xcomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 want | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 wife | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 want | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 bet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage a condition, not said to happen | can | I | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | set up | to-infinitive | I not said here | heart | with a pair | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with pair=Instrument | |||
| 3 | bet | future | I | any money | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | cease | shall | any money | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | want | to-infinitive | any money not said here | heart | for my wife | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme |
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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