The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 100
But even with my half-knowledge I can work great wonders.
Who acts: I · What happens: work · To what, where: great wonders
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 knowledge | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 knowledge | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 knowledge | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 knowledge | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 half | punct |
| 7 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 work | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 work | aux |
| 10 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 knowledge | acl:relcl |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wonders | amod |
| 12 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 work | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knowledge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | can | I | great wonders | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent wonder=Material |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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