The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 71

You will sleep better on a pillow than on damp moss.’

Who acts: You · What happens: sleep · To what, where: pillow

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	3 sleep	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	aux
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sleep	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 pillow	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pillow	det
7	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleep	obl
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 moss	case
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 moss	case
10	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 moss	amod
11	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pillow	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sleep	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	future	You			a pillow than damp moss		good property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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