The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 105

I can in a single moment build houses or anything I desire.

Who acts: I · What happens: desire

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 can	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	8 houses	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 houses	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moment	amod
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 build	compound
7	build	build	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 houses	compound
8	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 can	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 anything	cc
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 houses	conj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 desire	nsubj
12	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 anything	acl:relcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 can	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	desire	present	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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