The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 180
You stole my most precious jewel from me, and do you expect to live happily as the King’s son-in-law?
Who acts: You · What happens: steal, expect, live · To what, where: precious jewel
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 stole | nsubj |
| 2 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 jewel | nmod:poss |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 precious | advmod |
| 5 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jewel | amod |
| 6 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stole | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 stole | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 expect | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 expect | cc |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 expect | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 expect | nsubj |
| 13 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stole | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 expect | xcomp |
| 16 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 15 live | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 son | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 King | case |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 live | obl |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 law | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 law | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 in | punct |
| 25 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | You | my precious jewel | from me | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme from i=Source | |||
| 2 | expect | present · do-support | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | as the King's son in law; happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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