The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 24

They had as much money as they wanted, wore grand clothes, and made their way into the world.

Who acts: carriages · What happens: have, want, wear, make · To what, where: much money, grand clothes, way, world

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 (carriages), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 money	amod
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 wanted	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wore	punct
10	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wanted	conj
11	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clothes	amod
12	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 wore	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod:poss
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	carriages = carriage	much money		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
2	want	past	carriages = carriage			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	wear	past	carriages = carriage not said here	grand clothes		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source
4	make	past	carriages = carriage not said here	carriages's way	the world	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent way=Material into world=Product

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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