English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 44

She asked him: “Do you think your cat will sell for as much money as would buy a stick to beat you?”

Who acts: Miss, Dick, cat · What happens: ask, think, sell, buy, beat · To what, where: Dick, stick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss, Dick, cat), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	iobj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct
6	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 think	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 think	nsubj
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	ccomp
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cat	nmod:poss
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sell	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sell	aux
12	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 think	ccomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 money	case
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 money	amod
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sell	obl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 buy	mark
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 buy	aux
19	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sell	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stick	det
21	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 buy	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 beat	mark
23	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 buy	advcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 beat	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Miss		Dick		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	Dick				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	sell in a quote	future	your cat			for much money	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for money=Asset
4	buy in a quote	would	your cat not said here	a stick			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
5	beat in a quote	to-infinitive	your cat not said here	Dick			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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