The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 25

Wherever they went they lived in merrymaking and splendour, drove about with horses and carriages, ate and drank, but did nothing wrong.

Who acts: carriages, horses · What happens: go, live, drive, eat, drink, do · To what, where: merrymaking, nothing

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, horses), 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	Wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	advcl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 merrymaking	case
7	merrymaking	merrymaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 splendour	cc
9	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 merrymaking	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drove	punct
11	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	conj
12	about	about	ADV	_	11 drove	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 horses	case
14	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 drove	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 carriages	cc
16	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 horses	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ate	punct
18	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 horses	acl:relcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drank	cc
20	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ate	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 did	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 did	cc
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	conj
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 did	obj
25	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 nothing	amod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	carriages = carriage			wherever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	carriages = carriage		merrymaking and splendour		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in merrymaking=Location
3	drive	past	carriages = carriage not said here			with horses and carriages; about property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	past	horses and carriages not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	past	horses and carriages not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do	past	carriages = carriage not said here	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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