The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 19
You can then live as great lords, keep horses, and drive about in carriages.
Who acts: You · What happens: live, keep, drive · To what, where: horses, carriages
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. 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 | 4 live | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 live | advmod |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 lords | case |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lords | amod |
| 7 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 live | conj |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 keep | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drive | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drive | cc |
| 13 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | parataxis |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 drive | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 carriages | case |
| 16 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 drive | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | can | You | then | as great lords | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | You not said here | horses | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive | present | carriages | about property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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